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How many copies did Wild Willy West sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$136–$367 after Steam's cut $247–$564 before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 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 Wild Willy West and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wild Willy West's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 366k–453k
best case 813k (The Ascent)
Games like Wild Willy West

A typical game among these

≈ 366k–453k copies

≈ $763k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: The Ascent at ≈ 619k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Top-Down Shooter + Cyberpunk, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Cyberpunk + RPG + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2021, 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 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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