How much revenue did Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King make?

$327–$880 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King sell?

Q: How many copies did Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $327–$880 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 233k–696k

best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)

Games like Hawaii Detective: Killing of a Krypto King

A typical game among these

≈ 233k–696k copies

≈ $1.5M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 7k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Visual Novel, priced around $30.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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