How much revenue did Hordes of Hunger make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hordes of Hunger sell?

Q: How many copies did Hordes of Hunger sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 266 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut; from 266 reviews (Mostly 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 Hordes of Hunger and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hordes of Hunger's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–168k

best case 1.0M (Halls of Torment)

Games like Hordes of Hunger

A typical game among these

≈ 41k–168k copies

≈ $248k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Halls of Torment at ≈ 793k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.5M–$3.9M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 358 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Bullet Hell + Pixel Graphics + Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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