How much revenue did WAVESHAPER make?

$42k–$114k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WAVESHAPER sell?

Q: How many copies did WAVESHAPER sell?

82k to 133k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–133k; $42k–$114k after Steam's cut $77k–$175k before the cut; from 2k 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 WAVESHAPER out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WAVESHAPER's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–205k

best case 155k (Orbt XL)

Games like WAVESHAPER

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–205k copies

≈ $122k–$831k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Orbt XL at ≈ 118k–192k copies, ≈ $32k–$86k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 223 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 69 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (6 of 8) and Runner (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Score Attack, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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