How much revenue did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.0M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.0M copies

≈ $10.9M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~33k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Choices Matter + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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