How much revenue did Wailing Heights make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wailing Heights sell?

Q: How many copies did Wailing Heights sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut; from 134 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 Wailing Heights and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wailing Heights's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 397k–1.1M

best case 2.6M (LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes)

Games like Wailing Heights

A typical game among these

≈ 397k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.3M 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: LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $11.0M–$29.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Superhero (6 of 8) and LEGO (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LEGO + Open World, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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