How much revenue did Hextones make?

$540–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hextones sell?

Q: How many copies did Hextones sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 80 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $540–$1k after Steam's cut $982–$2k before Steam's cut; from 80 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 Hextones and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hextones's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–38k

best case 209k (Faerie Solitaire)

Games like Hextones

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–38k copies

≈ $69k–$140k after Steam's cut

from ~557 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Faerie Solitaire at ≈ 160k–259k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Solitaire + Board Game, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry RPG + Cute + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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