How much revenue did It Comes In Waves make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did It Comes In Waves sell?

Q: How many copies did It Comes In Waves sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 389 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before the cut; from 389 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 It Comes In Waves out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including It Comes In Waves's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 469k–2.4M

best case 1.4M (The Callisto Protocol™)

Games like It Comes In Waves

The middle of these games

≈ 469k–2.4M copies

≈ $3.6M–$22.5M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: The Callisto Protocol™ at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $17.8M–$48.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Third Person (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Sci-fi, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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