How many copies did WAKFU sell?

606k to 985k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did WAKFU make?

WAKFU is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is WAKFU?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 606k–985k; from 11k reviews (Mostly 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 WAKFU and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WAKFU's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 185k–317k

best case 1.4M (RISK: Global Domination)

Games like WAKFU

A typical game among these

≈ 185k–317k copies

≈ $2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: RISK: Global Domination at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Board Game (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based + Multiplayer + Tanks; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
RISK: Global Domination 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M 8.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	42k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Faeria 2017	Est. copies ≈ 248k–403k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Card GameStrategy
Atlas Reactor 2016	Est. copies ≈ 220k–358k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
ShellShock Live 2020	Est. copies ≈ 883k–1.4M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	36k reviews Very Positive	TanksMultiplayer
Infinity Wars: Animated Trading Card Game 2014	Est. copies ≈ 194k–316k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Turn-Based TacticsPvP
Touhou Big Big Battle 2018	Est. copies ≈ 123k–199k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessStrategy
Wizard101 2018	Est. copies ≈ 293k–476k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	ColorfulMMORPG
Age of Conquest IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 117k–191k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy