How much revenue did Words for Evil make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Words for Evil sell?

Q: How many copies did Words for Evil sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 476 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before Steam's cut; from 476 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 Words for Evil and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Words for Evil's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–22k

best case 262k (Scribble It!)

Games like Words for Evil

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–22k copies

≈ $6k–$38k after Steam's cut

from ~183 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 199k–324k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 189.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Typing (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Comedy. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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