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How many copies did Anagrams sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 620–1k
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut
from 25 reviews (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 Anagrams out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anagrams's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k
best case 36k (Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered)
Games like Anagrams

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $1k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~61 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered at ≈ 27k–45k copies, ≈ $60k–$162k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 31.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Spelling (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Spelling + Typing, priced around $8.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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