How much revenue did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story make?

$135–$363 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90–106

best case 150k (Highway Blossoms)

Games like Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story

A typical game among these

≈ 90–106 copies

≈ $184–$217 after Steam's cut

from ~3 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Highway Blossoms at ≈ 115k–186k copies, ≈ $409k–$1.1M 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 203 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 Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Time Management, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Indie + LGBTQ+ + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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