How much revenue did Wordeous make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wordeous sell?

Q: How many copies did Wordeous sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 23 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 Wordeous out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wordeous's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–37k

best case 99k (Doodle God)

Games like Wordeous

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–37k copies

≈ $45k–$208k after Steam's cut

from ~448 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: Doodle God at ≈ 76k–123k copies, ≈ $312k–$840k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 171 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 237.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + God Game, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, 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 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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A=B 2022	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before the cut	$4.99	927 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleProgramming
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