How much revenue did Witchfire make?

$4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Witchfire sell?

Q: How many copies did Witchfire sell?

445k to 723k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 445k–723k; $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.2M before Steam's cut; from 18k reviews (Very 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 Witchfire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Witchfire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–5.5M

best case 10.6M (Hunt: Showdown 1896)

Games like Witchfire

A typical game among these

≈ 2.8M–5.5M copies

≈ $29.5M–$65.1M after Steam's cut

from ~115k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hunt: Showdown 1896 at ≈ 8.0M–13.1M copies, ≈ $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Extraction Shooter, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 38 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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