How much revenue did Dick Wilde make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dick Wilde sell?

Q: How many copies did Dick Wilde sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 57 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before Steam's cut; from 57 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 Dick Wilde and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dick Wilde's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.0M

best case 5.8M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like Dick Wilde

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.0M copies

≈ $13.6M–$40.4M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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 43 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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