How much revenue did Code Wizard: Java Edition make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Code Wizard: Java Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Code Wizard: Java Edition sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 41 reviews (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 Code Wizard: Java Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Code Wizard: Java Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 408k–822k

best case 2.0M (Stormworks: Build and Rescue)

Games like Code Wizard: Java Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 408k–822k copies

≈ $1.8M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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 Building (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: Stormworks: Build and Rescue at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (4 of 8) and Programming (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Base-Building, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Open World + Immersive Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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