How much revenue did 7 Minutes in Hell make?

7 Minutes in Hell is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did 7 Minutes in Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did 7 Minutes in Hell sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; from 74 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 7 Minutes in Hell and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including 7 Minutes in Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.8M–17.7M

best case 29.7M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like 7 Minutes in Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 8.8M–17.7M copies

≈ $73.1M–$199.5M after Steam's cut

from ~401k 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.8M copies, ≈ $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 114k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 7) and Co-op (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 of the 7 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 52 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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