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How many copies did The Wicked West sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before the cut
from 1 reviews (1 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left The Wicked West out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wicked West's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.8M
best case 7.9M (ULTRAKILL)
Games like The Wicked West

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.8M copies

≈ $5.2M–$8.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.0M–9.7M copies, ≈ $49.4M–$132.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 33k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Arena Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, and 1 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 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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