How much revenue did Open Hexagon make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Open Hexagon sell?

Q: How many copies did Open Hexagon sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 493 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $31k–$69k before Steam's cut; from 493 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 Open Hexagon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Open Hexagon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 648k–1.2M

best case 2.1M (Super Hexagon)

Games like Open Hexagon

A typical game among these

≈ 648k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.2M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Super Hexagon at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 447 reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Arcade (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Arcade, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 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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