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How many copies did War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$238–$639 after Steam's cut $432–$983 before Steam's cut
from 14 reviews (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 War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–7.1M
best case 8.8M (It Takes Two)
Games like War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–7.1M copies

≈ $38.1M–$99.9M after Steam's cut

from ~132k 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: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $73.7M–$198.3M 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 5k to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 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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Est. copies
≈ 2.7M–4.4M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$24.99
108k reviews
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ExplorationSpace
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≈ 2.6M–4.2M
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It Takes Two
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Est. copies
≈ 6.7M–10.9M
2.0x vs typical
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≈ 6.5M–10.6M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
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Est. copies
≈ 4.4M–7.2M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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≈ 2.7M–4.4M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before Steam's cut
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2018
Est. copies
≈ 2.7M–4.4M
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$29.6M–$79.6M after Steam's cut $53.8M–$122.4M before Steam's cut
$39.99
89k reviews
Very Positive
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