How much revenue did Hardland make?

$114k–$307k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hardland sell?

Q: How many copies did Hardland sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 577 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $114k–$307k after Steam's cut $208k–$472k before the cut; from 577 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Hardland out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hardland's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.7M–16.0M

best case 56.9M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)

Games like Hardland

The middle of these games

≈ 6.7M–16.0M copies

≈ $50.5M–$371.8M after Steam's cut

from ~168k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.3M–70.4M copies, ≈ $595.5M–$1601.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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 79 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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