How much revenue did Choice of Life: Wild Islands make?

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

How many copies did Choice of Life: Wild Islands sell?

Q: How many copies did Choice of Life: Wild Islands sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 362 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 362 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 Choice of Life: Wild Islands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Choice of Life: Wild Islands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–85k

best case 1.1M (Sultan's Game)

Games like Choice of Life: Wild Islands

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–85k copies

≈ $58k–$912k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sultan's Game at ≈ 876k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 100 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Tabletop, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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