How much revenue did Hirai Nya make?

$844–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hirai Nya sell?

Q: How many copies did Hirai Nya sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $844–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 31 reviews (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 Hirai Nya and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hirai Nya's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 497–2k

best case 5k (If only I could go home early)

Games like Hirai Nya

A typical game among these

≈ 497–2k copies

≈ $413–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~34 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: If only I could go home early at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $4k–$12k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 42.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + 2D Platformer, priced around $4.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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