How much revenue did William and Sly make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did William and Sly sell?

Q: How many copies did William and Sly sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 89 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before the cut; from 89 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 William and Sly out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including William and Sly's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–304k

best case 450k (Little Kitty, Big City)

Games like William and Sly

The middle of these games

≈ 148k–304k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Little Kitty, Big City at ≈ 342k–557k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 485 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Wholesome, priced around $25.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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