How much revenue did Pine Hearts make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pine Hearts sell?

Q: How many copies did Pine Hearts sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$45k before Steam's cut; from 122 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 Pine Hearts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pine Hearts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 145k–309k

best case 452k (Little Kitty, Big City)

Games like Pine Hearts

A typical game among these

≈ 145k–309k copies

≈ $871k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Little Kitty, Big City at ≈ 345k–560k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 789 reviews in their first month; the range was 321 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Wholesome, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 2 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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