How much revenue did Death of a Wish make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death of a Wish sell?

Q: How many copies did Death of a Wish sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 167 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 167 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 Death of a Wish and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death of a Wish's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 703k–1.1M

best case 1.1M (FINAL FANTASY XVI)

Games like Death of a Wish

A typical game among these

≈ 703k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.5M–$20.7M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: FINAL FANTASY XVI at ≈ 842k–1.4M copies, ≈ $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 526 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Spectacle fighter, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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 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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