How much revenue did Text Twist Classic make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Text Twist Classic sell?

Q: How many copies did Text Twist Classic sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (Mixed)

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 Text Twist Classic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Text Twist Classic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–30k

best case 125k (Influent Language Learning Game)

Games like Text Twist Classic

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–30k copies

≈ $9k–$118k after Steam's cut

from ~350 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Influent Language Learning Game at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $522k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 107 reviews in their first month; the range was 29 to 707.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (7 of 8) and Education (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Education + Exploration, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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