How much revenue did Hard Minus Classic Redux make?

$367–$986 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hard Minus Classic Redux sell?

Q: How many copies did Hard Minus Classic Redux sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $367–$986 after Steam's cut $667–$2k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (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 Hard Minus Classic Redux and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hard Minus Classic Redux's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–109k

best case 769k (Neon Abyss)

Games like Hard Minus Classic Redux

A typical game among these

≈ 55k–109k copies

≈ $210k–$606k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Neon Abyss at ≈ 586k–952k copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 837 reviews in their first month; the range was 540 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Side Scroller (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Platformer, priced around $31. The breakout hits carry Loot + Procedural Generation + Replay Value; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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