How much revenue did Hellslave make?

$466k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hellslave sell?

Q: How many copies did Hellslave sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $466k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $848k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Hellslave and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hellslave's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 94k–210k

best case 8.9M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like Hellslave

A typical game among these

≈ 94k–210k copies

≈ $488k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.8M–11.0M copies, ≈ $46.5M–$125.1M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark Fantasy + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Lovecraftian + Dark Fantasy + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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