How much revenue did Escape From Hard Drive make?

$340–$915 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape From Hard Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape From Hard Drive sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $340–$915 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut; from 10 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 Escape From Hard Drive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape From Hard Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 415–10k

best case 7.7M (Factorio)

Games like Escape From Hard Drive

A typical game among these

≈ 415–10k copies

≈ $1k–$70k after Steam's cut

from ~59 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: Factorio at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies, ≈ $56.4M–$151.5M 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 71 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 86k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (8 of 8) and Programming (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Resource Management + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2020 to 2026, and 3 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 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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