How much revenue did Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy make?

$92k–$247k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy sell?

Q: How many copies did Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 353 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $92k–$247k after Steam's cut $167k–$380k before Steam's cut; from 353 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 Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–61k

best case 248k (Contraband Police: Prologue)

Games like Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–61k copies

≈ $265k–$366k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Contraband Police: Prologue at ≈ 189k–307k 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 221 reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 573.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Hidden Object, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Action + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 2016	Est. copies ≈ 52k–85k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$533k before Steam's cut	$8.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationHidden Object
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Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery 2021	Est. copies ≈ 22k–35k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $59k–$160k after Steam's cut $108k–$245k before Steam's cut	$9.99	871 reviews Very Positive	PuzzlePoint & Click
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