How much revenue did Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord make?

$308k–$828k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord sell?

Q: How many copies did Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $308k–$828k after Steam's cut $560k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 286k–1.1M

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition)

Games like Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

A typical game among these

≈ 286k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.0M–$8.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party-Based RPG (8 of 8) and Fantasy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party-Based RPG + Fantasy, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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