How much revenue did Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures sell?

Q: How many copies did Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 90 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$76k before Steam's cut; from 90 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–8.0M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–8.0M copies

≈ $3.9M–$34.6M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2021, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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