How much revenue did HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed make?

$749k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed sell?

Q: How many copies did HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed sell?

109k to 177k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 109k–177k; $749k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–34k

best case 955k (Necesse)

Games like HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–34k copies

≈ $7k–$439k after Steam's cut

from ~171 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Necesse at ≈ 727k–1.2M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 97 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 22k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Open World, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 52 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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Necesse 2025	Est. copies ≈ 727k–1.2M 172x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftMultiplayer
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed 2022	Est. copies ≈ 79k–129k 19x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $874k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Third-Person ShooterAliens
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