How much revenue did Hardland make?

$114k–$306k 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 575 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $114k–$306k after Steam's cut $207k–$471k before Steam's cut; from 575 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 Hardland and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hardland's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.7M–16.1M

best case 57.5M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered)

Games like Hardland

A typical game among these

≈ 6.7M–16.1M copies

≈ $50.6M–$374.0M after Steam's cut

from ~169k 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 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered at ≈ 43.8M–71.2M copies, ≈ $602.5M–$1620.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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