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How many copies did Wordle 5 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–12k
$64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before the cut
from 308 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 Wordle 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wordle 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–44k
best case 510k (Cyber Manhunt)
Games like Wordle 5

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–44k copies

≈ $47k–$141k after Steam's cut

from ~825 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cyber Manhunt at ≈ 389k–632k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M 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 537 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 139 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry RPG + Hacking; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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