How much revenue did Ori and the Will of the Wisps make?

$29.9M–$80.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ori and the Will of the Wisps sell?

Q: How many copies did Ori and the Will of the Wisps sell?

3.6M to 5.9M copies, based on its 146k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.6M–5.9M; $29.9M–$80.3M after Steam's cut $54.3M–$123.5M before the cut; from 146k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Ori and the Will of the Wisps out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ori and the Will of the Wisps's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 525k–1.3M

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like Ori and the Will of the Wisps

The middle of these games

≈ 525k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Metroidvania (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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