How much revenue did Hyper Light Breaker make?

$815k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hyper Light Breaker sell?

Q: How many copies did Hyper Light Breaker sell?

99k to 161k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99k–161k; $815k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 Hyper Light Breaker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hyper Light Breaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–6.2M

best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Hyper Light Breaker

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–6.2M copies

≈ $51.7M–$142.6M after Steam's cut

from ~107k 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: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 48k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.0M–$64.5M after Steam's cut $43.6M–$99.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	70k reviews Mostly Positive	RPGOpen World
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Hogwarts Legacy 2023	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $153.2M–$412.0M after Steam's cut $278.6M–$633.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	375k reviews Very Positive	MagicOpen World
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