How many copies did Helltaker sell?

3.2M to 5.2M copies, based on its 128k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Helltaker make?

Helltaker is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Helltaker?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 3.2M–5.2M; from 128k 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 Helltaker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Helltaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 710k–15.4M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Helltaker

A typical game among these

≈ 710k–15.4M copies

≈ $59.2M–$87.4M after Steam's cut

from ~225k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (2 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 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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Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Bloons TD 6 2018	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.3M–$124.5M after Steam's cut $84.2M–$191.5M before Steam's cut	$13.99	396k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Fall Guys 2020	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.9M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	468k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerParty Game
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
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