How much revenue did The Hell in I make?

$285–$767 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hell in I sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hell in I sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Hell in I and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hell in I's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–268k

best case 1.8M (The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered)

Games like The Hell in I

A typical game among these

≈ 168k–268k copies

≈ $623k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $19.2M–$51.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 171 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Story Rich, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Choices Matter + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 43 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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