How much revenue did The WILDS make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The WILDS sell?

Q: How many copies did The WILDS sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 614 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$86k before the cut; from 614 reviews (Mostly 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 The WILDS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The WILDS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 574k–682k

best case 2.9M (Russian Fishing 4)

Games like The WILDS

The middle of these games

≈ 574k–682k copies

≈ $5.4M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Sandbox (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Russian Fishing 4 at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Simulation + Fishing; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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