How much revenue did HudSight - crosshair overlay make?

$314k–$844k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HudSight - crosshair overlay sell?

Q: How many copies did HudSight - crosshair overlay sell?

143k to 232k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 143k–232k; $314k–$844k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 HudSight - crosshair overlay and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HudSight - crosshair overlay's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 544k–2.6M

best case 5.9M (Blender)

Games like HudSight - crosshair overlay

A typical game among these

≈ 544k–2.6M copies

≈ $5.9M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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: Blender at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 47 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (8 of 8) and Video Production (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Animation & Modeling + Software.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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