How much revenue did 100 hidden aliens make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 100 hidden aliens sell?

Q: How many copies did 100 hidden aliens sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 546 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 546 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 100 hidden aliens and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 100 hidden aliens's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–75k

best case 147k (A Building Full of Cats)

Games like 100 hidden aliens

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–75k copies

≈ $9k–$100k after Steam's cut

from ~807 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Building Full of Cats at ≈ 112k–182k copies, ≈ $92k–$248k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 66 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 694.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hand-drawn (8 of 8) and Hidden Object (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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