How much revenue did West of Loathing make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did West of Loathing sell?

Q: How many copies did West of Loathing sell?

355k to 577k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 355k–577k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.4M before Steam's cut; from 10k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 West of Loathing and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including West of Loathing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13.4M–21.4M

best case 24.1M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like West of Loathing

A typical game among these

≈ 13.4M–21.4M copies

≈ $139.8M–$387.3M after Steam's cut

from ~291k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (1 of 3), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.8M copies, ≈ $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (1 of 3) and City Builder (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2016. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 52 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Cities: Skylines 2015	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	291k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.8M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut $550.4M–$1252.2M before Steam's cut	$59.99	441k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Just Cause™ 3 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.3M–10.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut $62.5M–$142.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction