How much revenue did Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge sell?

Q: How many copies did Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 288 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before the cut; from 288 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 Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–61k

best case 558k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

The middle of these games

≈ 52k–61k copies

≈ $359k–$666k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 425k–691k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and First-Person (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $19. The breakout hits carry Grid-Based Movement + Adventure + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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