How much revenue did Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 195 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before Steam's cut; from 195 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 Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–147k

best case 237k (Agent A: A puzzle in disguise)

Games like Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery

A typical game among these

≈ 61k–147k copies

≈ $143k–$278k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Agent A: A puzzle in disguise at ≈ 180k–293k copies, ≈ $992k–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 391 reviews in their first month; the range was 39 to 957.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hidden Object (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Logic + Point & Click, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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