How much revenue did Wizardry 8 make?

$214k–$575k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wizardry 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did Wizardry 8 sell?

78k to 127k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 78k–127k; $214k–$575k after Steam's cut $389k–$885k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Wizardry 8 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wizardry 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–50k

best case 83k (Siralim Ultimate)

Games like Wizardry 8

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–50k copies

≈ $105k–$205k after Steam's cut

from ~616 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Siralim Ultimate at ≈ 63k–103k copies, ≈ $347k–$933k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 218 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 933.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party-Based RPG (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Collectathon + Creature Collector, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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