How much revenue did Weapon of Choice DX make?

$40k–$108k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Weapon of Choice DX sell?

Q: How many copies did Weapon of Choice DX sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 501 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; $40k–$108k after Steam's cut $73k–$167k before Steam's cut; from 501 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 Weapon of Choice DX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Weapon of Choice DX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–5.5M

best case 10.0M (Cuphead)

Games like Weapon of Choice DX

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–5.5M copies

≈ $24.6M–$38.5M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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: Cuphead at ≈ 7.6M–12.4M copies, ≈ $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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Cuphead 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.4M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut $76.2M–$173.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultCartoon
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