How much revenue did Meanings hidden in plain sight make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Meanings hidden in plain sight sell?

Q: How many copies did Meanings hidden in plain sight sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Meanings hidden in plain sight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Meanings hidden in plain sight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–159k

best case 262k (Scribble It!)

Games like Meanings hidden in plain sight

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–159k copies

≈ $162k–$575k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 199k–324k copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 625 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Comedy.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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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