How much revenue did Wooden Battles make?

$51k–$136k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wooden Battles sell?

Q: How many copies did Wooden Battles sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 536 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before Steam's cut; from 536 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 Wooden Battles and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wooden Battles's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–8.3M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Wooden Battles

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–8.3M copies

≈ $40.3M–$125.3M after Steam's cut

from ~141k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 93 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 55k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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