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How many copies did Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$692–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 51 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 Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–190k
best case 306k (Carto)
Games like Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–190k copies

≈ $130k–$1.5M 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.

Best case: Carto at ≈ 233k–379k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 285 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Hand-drawn (5 of 8) and Nature (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Exploration, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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