How much revenue did The Hidden Art of Innkeeping make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hidden Art of Innkeeping sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hidden Art of Innkeeping sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 65 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 The Hidden Art of Innkeeping and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hidden Art of Innkeeping's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–104k

best case 221k (Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game)

Games like The Hidden Art of Innkeeping

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–104k copies

≈ $417k–$843k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game at ≈ 168k–274k copies, ≈ $463k–$1.2M 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 252 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Time Management, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Funny + Time Management + Cooking; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 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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