How many copies did The Way of Life Free Edition sell?

255k to 414k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Way of Life Free Edition make?

The Way of Life Free Edition is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Way of Life Free Edition?

Estimated owners: ≈ 255k–414k; from 6k 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 The Way of Life Free Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Way of Life Free Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–7.8M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Way of Life Free Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–7.8M copies

≈ $16.2M–$88.6M after Steam's cut

from ~82k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (3 of 8) and Realistic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + Third-Person Shooter + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Squad 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.0M–9.8M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $66.2M–$178.0M after Steam's cut $120.4M–$273.9M before the cut	$39.99	243k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryRealistic
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.8M before the cut	$7.99	82k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut $12.0M–$27.4M before the cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.0M after Steam's cut $27.7M–$63.1M before the cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical
Assetto Corsa 2014	Est. copies ≈ 9.7M–15.8M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $53.4M–$143.6M after Steam's cut $97.1M–$220.9M before the cut	$19.99	173k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
Counter-Strike Nexon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	43k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.0M–$86.1M after Steam's cut $58.2M–$132.5M before the cut	$19.99	119k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival