How much revenue did Water: Transformer make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Water: Transformer sell?

Q: How many copies did Water: Transformer sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 41 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 Water: Transformer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Water: Transformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–121k

best case 1.8M (Trine 2: Complete Story)

Games like Water: Transformer

The middle of these games

≈ 109k–121k copies

≈ $479k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Trine 2: Complete Story at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 597 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, 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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