How many copies did The WereCleaner sell?

329k to 535k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The WereCleaner make?

The WereCleaner is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The WereCleaner?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 329k–535k; from 13k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The WereCleaner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The WereCleaner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–144k

best case 734k (Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer)

Games like The WereCleaner

A typical game among these

≈ 84k–144k copies

≈ $173k–$376k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Puzzle (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer at ≈ 559k–908k copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.3M 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 966 reviews in their first month; the range was 47 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (3 of 8) and Stealth (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 2 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 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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