How much revenue did Hyperbolica make?

$117k–$315k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hyperbolica sell?

Q: How many copies did Hyperbolica sell?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$485k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Hyperbolica and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hyperbolica's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 566k–1.3M

best case 3.8M (The Stanley Parable)

Games like Hyperbolica

A typical game among these

≈ 566k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.0M–$16.6M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: The Stanley Parable at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Narration, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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The Witness 2016	Est. copies ≈ 900k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$40.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	22k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleExploration
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The Stanley Parable 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	46k reviews Very Positive	ComedyNarration
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