How much revenue did Black Myth: Wukong make?

$496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Black Myth: Wukong sell?

Q: How many copies did Black Myth: Wukong sell?

30.1M to 48.9M copies, based on its 1.2M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30.1M–48.9M; $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut $902.2M–$2052.5M before Steam's cut; from 1.2M reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Black Myth: Wukong and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Black Myth: Wukong's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–7.4M

best case 10.1M (Hades)

Games like Black Myth: Wukong

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–7.4M copies

≈ $22.6M–$102.2M after Steam's cut

from ~154k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mythology (5 of 8) and Hack and Slash (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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Hades 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.7M–12.5M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut $96.1M–$218.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	310k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
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