How much revenue did MatchR: Now Hiring make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MatchR: Now Hiring sell?

Q: How many copies did MatchR: Now Hiring sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 73 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 MatchR: Now Hiring and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MatchR: Now Hiring's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–101k

best case 224k (The Legend of Bum-Bo)

Games like MatchR: Now Hiring

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–101k copies

≈ $7k–$364k after Steam's cut

from ~627 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: The Legend of Bum-Bo at ≈ 171k–278k copies, ≈ $705k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 30.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Match 3 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Puzzle, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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