How much revenue did The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule make?

$101–$272 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule sell?

Q: How many copies did The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $101–$272 after Steam's cut $184–$419 before Steam's cut; from 15 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 The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.1M

best case 3.7M (The Outlast Trials)

Games like The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–3.1M copies

≈ $28.5M–$48.1M after Steam's cut

from ~62k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Outlast Trials at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $30.7M–$82.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 45k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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The Outlast Trials 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.7M–$82.5M after Steam's cut $55.8M–$126.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	112k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Hello Neighbor 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.4M after Steam's cut $17.2M–$39.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSandbox
Dark Deception 2018	Est. copies ≈ 741k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	HorrorFree to Play
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Deadly Escape 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$1.99	83 reviews Mixed	IndieAction
Tyrannical Chickens 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7–$18 after Steam's cut $12–$28 before Steam's cut	$0.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	ShooterRogue-lite
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