How many copies did Word sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Word make?

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

How big is Word?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1k–2k; from 52 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 Word and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Word's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–67k

best case 668k (Her Story)

Games like Word

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–67k copies

≈ $18k–$353k after Steam's cut

from ~239 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Nonlinear (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: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 229.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Nonlinear (4 of 8) and Typing (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 of the 8 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 61 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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