How many copies did The Way of Life Free Edition sell?

255k to 414k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Way of Life Free Edition make?

The Way of Life Free Edition is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Way of Life Free Edition?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 255k–414k; from 6k 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 The Way of Life Free Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Way of Life Free Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–7.9M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Way of Life Free Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 2.8M–7.9M copies

≈ $16.3M–$89.4M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (3 of 8) and Realistic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + Third-Person Shooter + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 34x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Squad 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.0M–9.8M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $66.5M–$178.7M after Steam's cut $120.8M–$274.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	244k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryRealistic
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	83k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical
Assetto Corsa 2014	Est. copies ≈ 9.8M–15.9M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $53.8M–$144.6M after Steam's cut $97.8M–$222.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	175k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
Counter-Strike Nexon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–4.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	43k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut $59.3M–$134.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	122k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival