How much revenue did Western Press make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Western Press sell?

Q: How many copies did Western Press sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before the cut; from 293 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 Western Press out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Western Press's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 562–90k

best case 474k (Cook, Serve, Delicious!)

Games like Western Press

The middle of these games

≈ 562–90k copies

≈ $1k–$686k after Steam's cut

from ~148 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cook, Serve, Delicious! at ≈ 361k–587k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 846.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Typing (7 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Time Management + Typing, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2013	Est. copies ≈ 361k–587k 39x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut	$12.99	6k reviews Very Positive	IndieTime Management
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