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How many copies did WAVER: A Typing Adventure sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before the cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left WAVER: A Typing Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WAVER: A Typing Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–389k
best case 767k (Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+)
Games like WAVER: A Typing Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–389k copies

≈ $3k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~92 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ at ≈ 585k–950k copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 3k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Rhythm (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rhythm + Anime, priced around $39.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 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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