How much revenue did HYPER DEMON make?

$345k–$928k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HYPER DEMON sell?

Q: How many copies did HYPER DEMON sell?

84k to 136k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–136k; $345k–$928k after Steam's cut $628k–$1.4M 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 HYPER DEMON and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HYPER DEMON's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 748k–2.1M

best case 8.0M (ULTRAKILL)

Games like HYPER DEMON

A typical game among these

≈ 748k–2.1M copies

≈ $5.2M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.1M–9.9M copies, ≈ $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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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ULTRAKILL 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.1M–9.9M 9.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut $91.2M–$207.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	245k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFast-Paced
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