How much revenue did Apewar make?

$58k–$155k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apewar sell?

Q: How many copies did Apewar sell?

212k to 344k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 212k–344k; $58k–$155k after Steam's cut $105k–$238k before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Apewar and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apewar's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–11.5M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Apewar

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–11.5M copies

≈ $77.9M–$96.4M after Steam's cut

from ~156k 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 First-Person (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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 53k reviews in their first month; the range was 21k to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Mature + Utilities + Software; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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