How much revenue did pWordle make?

$285–$767 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did pWordle sell?

Q: How many copies did pWordle sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before the cut; from 14 reviews (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 pWordle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including pWordle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–32k

best case 23k (Paper Bride 5 Two Lifetimes)

Games like pWordle

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–32k copies

≈ $54k–$94k after Steam's cut

from ~460 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Paper Bride 5 Two Lifetimes at ≈ 18k–28k copies, ≈ $48k–$130k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 114 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33 to 295.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Word Game (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Word Game, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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