How much revenue did I wanna be the Creator make?

$142k–$383k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I wanna be the Creator sell?

Q: How many copies did I wanna be the Creator sell?

86k to 141k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–141k; $142k–$383k after Steam's cut $259k–$589k before the cut; from 3k 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 I wanna be the Creator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I wanna be the Creator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.2M

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like I wanna be the Creator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–3.2M copies

≈ $11.8M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Level Editor (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Dark Humor + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2020, 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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