How much revenue did Spellstrife make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spellstrife sell?

Q: How many copies did Spellstrife sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (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 Spellstrife and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spellstrife's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–129k

best case 881k (Darkest Dungeon® II)

Games like Spellstrife

A typical game among these

≈ 80k–129k copies

≈ $294k–$749k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Darkest Dungeon® II at ≈ 671k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 901 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Rogue-like, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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