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How many copies did Letter-Setter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 138–224
$113–$305 after Steam's cut $206–$469 before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Letter-Setter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Letter-Setter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114–513
best case 781 (Tower Words)
Games like Letter-Setter

The middle of these games

≈ 114–513 copies

≈ $120–$555 after Steam's cut

from ~7 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: Tower Words at ≈ 595–967 copies, ≈ $490–$1k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 19 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 Puzzle (8 of 8) and Word Game (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Word Game + Education, priced around $3.
The era
Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Tower Words
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