How much revenue did While Waiting make?

$47k–$126k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did While Waiting sell?

Q: How many copies did While Waiting sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 344 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $47k–$126k after Steam's cut $85k–$194k before Steam's cut; from 344 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 While Waiting and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including While Waiting's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 249k–978k

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like While Waiting

A typical game among these

≈ 249k–978k copies

≈ $771k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M 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 693 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Comedy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Puzzle-Platformer + First-Person + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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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