How much revenue did Bookworm make?

$108–$292 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bookworm sell?

Q: How many copies did Bookworm sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $108–$292 after Steam's cut $197–$449 before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Bookworm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bookworm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 659–6k

best case 7k (Mini Words - minimalist puzzle)

Games like Bookworm

A typical game among these

≈ 659–6k copies

≈ $975–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~54 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mini Words - minimalist puzzle at ≈ 5k–9k copies, ≈ $3k–$8k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 33 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Spelling (8 of 8) and Word Game (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Puzzle, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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