How much revenue did Hylics 2 make?

$366k–$984k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hylics 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Hylics 2 sell?

89k to 144k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–144k; $366k–$984k after Steam's cut $665k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Hylics 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hylics 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 383–1k

best case 585k (Hylics)

Games like Hylics 2

A typical game among these

≈ 383–1k copies

≈ $1k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~19 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hylics at ≈ 446k–724k copies, ≈ $366k–$985k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 976 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Psychedelic (7 of 8) and Surreal (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal + Psychedelic, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Surreal + Card Battler; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 61 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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