How much revenue did West of Loathing make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did West of Loathing sell?

Q: How many copies did West of Loathing sell?

354k to 575k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 354k–575k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 West of Loathing out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including West of Loathing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13.4M–21.3M

best case 24.0M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like West of Loathing

The middle of these games

≈ 13.4M–21.3M copies

≈ $139.9M–$386.4M after Steam's cut

from ~292k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (1 of 3), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.7M copies, ≈ $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (1 of 3) and City Builder (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2016. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 52 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Cities: Skylines 2015	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut $213.5M–$485.8M before the cut	$29.99	292k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.7M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut	$59.99	439k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Just Cause™ 3 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.3M–$92.2M after Steam's cut $62.4M–$141.9M before the cut	$19.99	128k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction