How much revenue did Letter-Setter make?

$113–$305 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Letter-Setter sell?

Q: How many copies did Letter-Setter sell?

138 to 224 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 138–224; $113–$305 after Steam's cut $206–$469 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Letter-Setter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Letter-Setter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114–513

best case 781 (Tower Words)

Games like Letter-Setter

A typical game among these

≈ 114–513 copies

≈ $120–$555 after Steam's cut

from ~7 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: Tower Words at ≈ 595–967 copies, ≈ $490–$1k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 19 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 Puzzle (8 of 8) and Word Game (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Education, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Quick Words 2022	Est. copies ≈ 521–846 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $715–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	21 reviews Positive	Word GameCasual
Tower Words 2022	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $490–$1k after Steam's cut $890–$2k before Steam's cut	$2.99	24 reviews Mostly Positive	Word GameEducation
Enworden 2023	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $239–$640 after Steam's cut $434–$985 before Steam's cut	$4.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	DifficultWord Game
Icewords 2021	Est. copies ≈ 149–242 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut	$2.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Word GamePuzzle
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InfiniWordSlide 2020	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before Steam's cut	$4.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	CasualWord Game
WordLeap 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before Steam's cut	$4.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Word GamePuzzle