How much revenue did Yolo Space Hacker make?

$36k–$98k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yolo Space Hacker sell?

Q: How many copies did Yolo Space Hacker sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 214 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $36k–$98k after Steam's cut $66k–$151k before Steam's cut; from 214 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 Yolo Space Hacker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yolo Space Hacker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 548–34k

best case 1.1M (Gunpoint)

Games like Yolo Space Hacker

A typical game among these

≈ 548–34k copies

≈ $2k–$120k after Steam's cut

from ~76 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Gunpoint at ≈ 843k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 28 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 45.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Stealth (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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