How much revenue did Wandering Sword make?

$7.6M–$20.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wandering Sword sell?

Q: How many copies did Wandering Sword sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $7.6M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut; from 45k reviews (Very 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 Wandering Sword out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wandering Sword's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–142k

best case 798k (Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion)

Games like Wandering Sword

The middle of these games

≈ 103k–142k copies

≈ $296k–$914k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion at ≈ 608k–988k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 773 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Martial Arts (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Open World, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Open World + Strategy + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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