How much revenue did Hexcells make?

$273k–$734k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hexcells sell?

Q: How many copies did Hexcells sell?

332k to 540k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 332k–540k; $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Hexcells out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hexcells's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 557k–750k

best case 963k (Dorfromantik)

Games like Hexcells

The middle of these games

≈ 557k–750k copies

≈ $3.7M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dorfromantik at ≈ 734k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Logic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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 38 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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