How much revenue did Hieroglyphika make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hieroglyphika sell?

Q: How many copies did Hieroglyphika sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 158 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before Steam's cut; from 158 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 Hieroglyphika and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hieroglyphika's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–342k

best case 619k (Tales of Maj'Eyal)

Games like Hieroglyphika

A typical game among these

≈ 76k–342k copies

≈ $437k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Tales of Maj'Eyal at ≈ 471k–766k copies, ≈ $906k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 939 reviews in their first month; the range was 314 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Traditional Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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