How much revenue did The Invisible Hours make?

$149k–$400k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Invisible Hours sell?

Q: How many copies did The Invisible Hours sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 525 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $149k–$400k after Steam's cut $271k–$616k before Steam's cut; from 525 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 The Invisible Hours and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Invisible Hours's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–181k

best case 599k (The Room 4: Old Sins)

Games like The Invisible Hours

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–181k copies

≈ $849k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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 Room 4: Old Sins at ≈ 456k–741k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 479 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Point & Click + Lovecraftian + Hidden Object; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 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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The Room 4: Old Sins 2021	Est. copies ≈ 456k–741k 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$8.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleMystery
Riven 2024	Est. copies ≈ 72k–116k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $689k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleAdventure
Myst 2021	Est. copies ≈ 55k–89k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $528k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $960k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	2k reviews Very Positive	AdventurePuzzle
Tacoma 2017	Est. copies ≈ 166k–269k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $911k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Walking Simulator Story Rich
The Solus Project 2016	Est. copies ≈ 109k–178k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $601k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalAdventure
Red Matter 2018	Est. copies ≈ 36k–59k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $248k–$666k after Steam's cut $450k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	1k reviews Very Positive	VRPuzzle
Obduction 2016	Est. copies ≈ 166k–270k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	AdventurePuzzle
Firmament 2023	Est. copies ≈ 41k–66k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $393k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $714k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$34.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzleAdventure