How much revenue did Hellish Quart make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hellish Quart sell?

Q: How many copies did Hellish Quart sell?

212k to 344k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 212k–344k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Hellish Quart and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hellish Quart's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–617k

best case 2.0M (Blade and Sorcery)

Games like Hellish Quart

A typical game among these

≈ 130k–617k copies

≈ $1.0M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Blade and Sorcery at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 292 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Swordplay (5 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Swordplay, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 2 of the 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 70 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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