How much revenue did Will Glow the Wisp make?

$31k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Will Glow the Wisp sell?

Q: How many copies did Will Glow the Wisp sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $31k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Will Glow the Wisp and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Will Glow the Wisp's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k

best case 14k (BEHEMOTH)

Games like Will Glow the Wisp

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $9k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BEHEMOTH at ≈ 11k–17k copies, ≈ $12k–$31k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 258 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Bullet Hell, priced around $4.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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