How much revenue did World of Haiku make?

World of Haiku is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did World of Haiku sell?

Q: How many copies did World of Haiku sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 146 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; from 146 reviews (Mostly 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 World of Haiku out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World of Haiku's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–46k

best case 1.7M (Hacknet)

Games like World of Haiku

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–46k copies

≈ $6k–$118k after Steam's cut

from ~133 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: Hacknet at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.4M 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 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 45.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hacking (8 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hacking + Simulation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Story Rich + Choices Matter; 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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