How much revenue did Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game make?

$584–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $584–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 43 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 Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 715–2k

best case 518k (The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition)

Games like Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game

A typical game among these

≈ 715–2k copies

≈ $2k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~33 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition at ≈ 395k–641k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 398 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Tabletop (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comedy, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Comedy + Classic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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