How much revenue did In Verbis Virtus make?

$452k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In Verbis Virtus sell?

Q: How many copies did In Verbis Virtus sell?

82k to 134k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–134k; $452k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $822k–$1.9M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 In Verbis Virtus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In Verbis Virtus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.5M

best case 56.7M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)

Games like In Verbis Virtus

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies

≈ $23.2M–$28.2M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.2M–70.2M copies, ≈ $593.9M–$1596.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (7 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fantasy, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Third Person + Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2023, 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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