How much revenue did HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition make?

$9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition sell?

1.6M to 2.7M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.7M; $9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut $16.3M–$37.1M before Steam's cut; from 33k reviews (Very 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 HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.3M

best case 3.9M (Brotato)

Games like HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.3M copies

≈ $9.4M–$20.1M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Brotato at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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