How much revenue did Will Glow the Wisp make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Will Glow the Wisp sell?

Q: How many copies did Will Glow the Wisp sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k 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 Will Glow the Wisp out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Will Glow the Wisp's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k

best case 14k (BEHEMOTH)

Games like Will Glow the Wisp

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $9k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BEHEMOTH at ≈ 10k–17k copies, ≈ $12k–$31k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 258 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Bullet Hell, priced around $4.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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