How much revenue did Hidden in Plain Sight make?

$90k–$241k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden in Plain Sight sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden in Plain Sight sell?

54k to 88k copies, based on its 971 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–88k; $90k–$241k after Steam's cut $163k–$370k before Steam's cut; from 971 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Hidden in Plain Sight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden in Plain Sight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 382–16k

best case 2.3M (Pummel Party)

Games like Hidden in Plain Sight

A typical game among these

≈ 382–16k copies

≈ $1k–$54k after Steam's cut

from ~106 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Pummel Party at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 62.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4 Player Local (6 of 8) and Party Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Board Game, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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