How much revenue did I wanna be the Creator make?

$143k–$384k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I wanna be the Creator sell?

Q: How many copies did I wanna be the Creator sell?

87k to 141k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–141k; $143k–$384k after Steam's cut $260k–$591k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 I wanna be the Creator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I wanna be the Creator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.2M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like I wanna be the Creator

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.2M copies

≈ $11.8M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and Level Editor (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Dark Humor + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2020, and none of them 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 79 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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