How much revenue did SPELLHACK!! make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SPELLHACK!! sell?

Q: How many copies did SPELLHACK!! sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 53 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 SPELLHACK!! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SPELLHACK!!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 583k–2.2M

best case 2.3M (Eternal Return)

Games like SPELLHACK!!

A typical game among these

≈ 583k–2.2M copies

≈ $8.4M–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Eternal Return at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Real Time Tactics (5 of 8) and Tactical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Sexual Content.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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