How much revenue did Letterlike make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Letterlike sell?

Q: How many copies did Letterlike sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 53 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 Letterlike out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Letterlike's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472–5k

best case 37k (小小侠客模拟器)

Games like Letterlike

The middle of these games

≈ 472–5k copies

≈ $1k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~57 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 小小侠客模拟器 at ≈ 29k–46k copies, ≈ $23k–$63k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 973.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Word Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Rogue-like, priced around $3.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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