How much revenue did Emberwake make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emberwake sell?

Q: How many copies did Emberwake sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 30 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–525k

best case 1.2M (Wartales)

Games like Emberwake

The middle of these games

≈ 402k–525k copies

≈ $3.4M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 Medieval (4 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: Wartales at ≈ 882k–1.4M copies, ≈ $8.5M–$22.8M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Medieval (4 of 8) and Tower Defense (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Strategy + Party-Based RPG + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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