How much revenue did Waste Walkers make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Waste Walkers sell?

Q: How many copies did Waste Walkers sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 216 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before the cut; from 216 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 Waste Walkers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Waste Walkers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–226k

best case 7.3M (The Elder Scrolls® Online)

Games like Waste Walkers

The middle of these games

≈ 106k–226k copies

≈ $721k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls® Online at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $30.5M–$82.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 715 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Open World, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry MMORPG + Singleplayer + Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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