How much revenue did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness sell?

Q: How many copies did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 244 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut; from 244 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 Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–15k

best case 252k (Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery)

Games like Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–15k copies

≈ $10k–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~386 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery at ≈ 192k–312k copies, ≈ $685k–$1.8M 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 240 reviews in their first month; the range was 76 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Clicker (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Hentai, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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