How much revenue did Hexarchy make?

$225k–$606k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hexarchy sell?

Q: How many copies did Hexarchy sell?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $225k–$606k after Steam's cut $410k–$933k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Hexarchy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hexarchy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–152k

best case 242k (Thea: The Awakening)

Games like Hexarchy

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–152k copies

≈ $853k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Game (4 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: Thea: The Awakening at ≈ 184k–300k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 309 reviews in their first month; the range was 124 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (4 of 8) and Board Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Thea: The Awakening 2015	Est. copies ≈ 184k–300k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRPG
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator 2021	Est. copies ≈ 27k–44k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $187k–$504k after Steam's cut $341k–$775k before Steam's cut	$24.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyColorful
Last Day of Rome 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before Steam's cut	$11.99	176 reviews Mixed	StrategyCard Battler
Through the Ages 2018	Est. copies ≈ 71k–116k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $314k–$844k after Steam's cut $570k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$15.99	2k reviews Very Positive	StrategyBoard Game
Terraformers 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SimulationProcedural Generation
Charterstone: Digital Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $34k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$143k before Steam's cut	$19.99	253 reviews Mostly Positive	TabletopTurn-Based
Blood Rage: Digital Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $114k–$308k after Steam's cut $208k–$473k before Steam's cut	$19.99	839 reviews Mixed	StrategyBoard Game
Card Survival: Tropical Island 2022	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $523k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $950k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalAdventure