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How big is Hare Apparent?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 1k–2k
from 43 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 Hare Apparent and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hare Apparent's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 250k–398k
best case 2.1M (Emily is Away)
Games like Hare Apparent

A typical game among these

≈ 250k–398k copies

≈ $980k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Emily is Away at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 448 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Interactive Fiction (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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