How much revenue did Cowboy Hell make?

$245–$658 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cowboy Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Cowboy Hell sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $245–$658 after Steam's cut $446–$1k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Cowboy Hell and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cowboy Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–238k

best case 270k (Minishoot' Adventures)

Games like Cowboy Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 149k–238k copies

≈ $540k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minishoot' Adventures at ≈ 206k–335k copies, ≈ $849k–$2.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 490 reviews in their first month; the range was 90 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Exploration (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Twin Stick Shooter + Bullet Hell, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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