How much revenue did Moon Hunters make?

$898k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Moon Hunters sell?

Q: How many copies did Moon Hunters sell?

218k to 354k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 218k–354k; $898k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly 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 Moon Hunters and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moon Hunters's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–87k

best case 104k (Dreamscaper)

Games like Moon Hunters

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–87k copies

≈ $72k–$457k after Steam's cut

from ~873 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dreamscaper at ≈ 79k–128k copies, ≈ $543k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 485 reviews in their first month; the range was 155 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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