How much revenue did WHAT THE PAK?! make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WHAT THE PAK?! sell?

Q: How many copies did WHAT THE PAK?! 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; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$219k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left WHAT THE PAK?! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WHAT THE PAK?!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.8M–21.4M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like WHAT THE PAK?!

The middle of these games

≈ 9.8M–21.4M copies

≈ $148.8M–$212.4M after Steam's cut

from ~304k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.7M–$208.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 49k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 143k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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