How much revenue did Spellcaster University make?

$733k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spellcaster University sell?

Q: How many copies did Spellcaster University sell?

107k to 173k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 107k–173k; $733k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Spellcaster University out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spellcaster University's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–36k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Spellcaster University

The middle of these games

≈ 22k–36k copies

≈ $89k–$162k after Steam's cut

from ~803 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 926k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 526 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 99 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Base-Building + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 of your 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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