How much revenue did Writer's Rush make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Writer's Rush sell?

Q: How many copies did Writer's Rush sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 430 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut; from 430 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 Writer's Rush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Writer's Rush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 607k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (LoveChoice)

Games like Writer's Rush

A typical game among these

≈ 607k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: LoveChoice at ≈ 910k–1.5M copies, ≈ $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 621 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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