How much revenue did Witchfire make?

$4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Witchfire sell?

Q: How many copies did Witchfire sell?

435k to 707k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 435k–707k; $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.8M before the cut; from 18k 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 Witchfire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Witchfire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–5.4M

best case 10.5M (Hunt: Showdown 1896)

Games like Witchfire

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–5.4M copies

≈ $29.4M–$64.9M after Steam's cut

from ~114k 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: Hunt: Showdown 1896 at ≈ 8.0M–13.0M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Extraction Shooter, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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