How much revenue did Witch Strandings make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Witch Strandings sell?

Q: How many copies did Witch Strandings sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 39 reviews (Mixed)

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 Witch Strandings out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Witch Strandings's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–195k

best case 424k (Catherine Classic)

Games like Witch Strandings

The middle of these games

≈ 137k–195k copies

≈ $736k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Catherine Classic at ≈ 323k–525k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M 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 672 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 222 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Sexual Content + Anime + Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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