How much revenue did Death of a Wish make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death of a Wish sell?

Q: How many copies did Death of a Wish sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 166 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before the cut; from 166 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 Death of a Wish out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death of a Wish's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 703k–1.1M

best case 1.1M (FINAL FANTASY XVI)

Games like Death of a Wish

The middle of these games

≈ 703k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.5M–$20.5M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: FINAL FANTASY XVI at ≈ 827k–1.3M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 527 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Spectacle fighter, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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