How much revenue did HYNPYTOL make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HYNPYTOL sell?

Q: How many copies did HYNPYTOL sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 91 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 91 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 HYNPYTOL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HYNPYTOL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 229k–6.0M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like HYNPYTOL

A typical game among these

≈ 229k–6.0M copies

≈ $1.4M–$37.1M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 525 reviews in their first month; the range was 91 to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2021, 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Lightmatter 2020	Est. copies ≈ 72k–117k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $721k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	LogicIndie
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