How much revenue did The Hurt in Secret make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hurt in Secret sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hurt in Secret sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (Mostly 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 The Hurt in Secret and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hurt in Secret's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 583k–824k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The Hurt in Secret

A typical game among these

≈ 583k–824k copies

≈ $623k–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 853k–1.4M copies, ≈ $349k–$939k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 92 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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