How many copies did Word Game: Episode 0 sell?

113k to 184k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Word Game: Episode 0 make?

Word Game: Episode 0 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Word Game: Episode 0?

Estimated owners: ≈ 113k–184k; from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Word Game: Episode 0 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Word Game: Episode 0's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 363k–674k

best case 1.2M (POLYGON)

Games like Word Game: Episode 0

The middle of these games

≈ 363k–674k copies

≈ $873k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: POLYGON at ≈ 917k–1.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 679 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (3 of 8) and Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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