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How many copies did Choose Wisely sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before the cut
from 136 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 Choose Wisely out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Choose Wisely's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–1.6M
best case 7.5M (Assassin's Creed® Odyssey)
Games like Choose Wisely

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–1.6M copies

≈ $6.8M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choices Matter (4 of 8), 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: Assassin's Creed® Odyssey at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.2M–$253.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 27k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choices Matter (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Historical, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Open World + Historical + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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