How much revenue did Little Hats make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Little Hats sell?

Q: How many copies did Little Hats sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut; from 30 reviews (Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27.8M–38.5M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Little Hats

The middle of these games

≈ 27.8M–38.5M copies

≈ $203.7M–$339.2M after Steam's cut

from ~612k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 999 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 143 to 131k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.4M–68.9M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut $847.6M–$1928.4M before the cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
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Elder Legacy: Survival 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut	$9.99	231 reviews Mixed	Early AccessMythology
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