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How many copies did MADHACK sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before the cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left MADHACK out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MADHACK's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–168k
best case 5.9M (Celeste)
Games like MADHACK

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–168k copies

≈ $225k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $24.6M–$66.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 377 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 112 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + Difficult + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 3 of your 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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