How much revenue did HEDE Game Engine make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HEDE Game Engine sell?

Q: How many copies did HEDE Game Engine sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 HEDE Game Engine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HEDE Game Engine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 218k–306k

best case 314k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like HEDE Game Engine

A typical game among these

≈ 218k–306k copies

≈ $962k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 239k–389k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 252 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Programming (8 of 8) and Education (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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