How much revenue did Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga make?

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

How many copies did Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga sell?

Q: How many copies did Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 47 reviews (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 Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 708–4k

best case 22k (Beat Hazard 3)

Games like Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga

A typical game among these

≈ 708–4k copies

≈ $2k–$20k after Steam's cut

from ~43 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Beat Hazard 3 at ≈ 17k–27k copies, ≈ $93k–$249k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 25 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 446.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Twin Stick Shooter (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Music-Based Procedural Generation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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