How much revenue did It Comes In Waves make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did It Comes In Waves sell?

Q: How many copies did It Comes In Waves sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 391 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before Steam's cut; from 391 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 It Comes In Waves and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including It Comes In Waves's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 474k–2.4M

best case 1.4M (The Callisto Protocol™)

Games like It Comes In Waves

A typical game among these

≈ 474k–2.4M copies

≈ $3.7M–$22.7M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: The Callisto Protocol™ at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $17.9M–$48.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Third Person (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Sci-fi, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, 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 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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