How much revenue did Refuted Wind make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Refuted Wind sell?

Q: How many copies did Refuted Wind sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 156 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 Refuted Wind and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Refuted Wind's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–500k

best case 481k (KinitoPET)

Games like Refuted Wind

A typical game among these

≈ 124k–500k copies

≈ $708k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: KinitoPET at ≈ 367k–596k copies, ≈ $604k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 465 reviews in their first month; the range was 229 to 997.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Horror, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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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