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How many copies did Elemental World sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 496–806
$954–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 20 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 Elemental World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elemental World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.6M–23.4M
best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)
Games like Elemental World

The middle of these games

≈ 12.6M–23.4M copies

≈ $81.7M–$151.2M after Steam's cut

from ~421k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 103k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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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