How much revenue did Sword With Sauce make?

$270k–$725k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword With Sauce sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword With Sauce sell?

196k to 319k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 196k–319k; $270k–$725k after Steam's cut $490k–$1.1M before the cut; from 6k 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 Sword With Sauce out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword With Sauce's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–8.0M

best case 31.7M (Dying Light)

Games like Sword With Sauce

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–8.0M copies

≈ $82.3M–$120.6M after Steam's cut

from ~138k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.1M–39.2M copies, ≈ $165.8M–$445.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Third Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Online Co-Op + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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