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How many copies did Wild Willy West sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$136–$367 after Steam's cut $247–$564 before the cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 5 reviews. 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 Wild Willy West out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wild Willy West's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 291k–378k
best case 809k (The Ascent)
Games like Wild Willy West

The middle of these games

≈ 291k–378k copies

≈ $589k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Ascent at ≈ 617k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Shooter + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Indie + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2021, 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 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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