How much revenue did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood make?

$773k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood sell?

156k to 254k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 156k–254k; $773k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 6k 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 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–8k

best case 59k (Along the Edge)

Games like The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–8k copies

≈ $18k–$33k after Steam's cut

from ~242 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Along the Edge at ≈ 45k–73k copies, ≈ $172k–$462k 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 50 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 77.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hidden Object + Interactive Fiction, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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