How much revenue did Wailing Heights make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wailing Heights sell?

Q: How many copies did Wailing Heights sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 134 reviews (Mostly 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 Wailing Heights out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wailing Heights's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 393k–1.1M

best case 2.6M (LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes)

Games like Wailing Heights

The middle of these games

≈ 393k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Superhero (6 of 8) and LEGO (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LEGO + Open World, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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