How much revenue did HellSign make?

$312k–$838k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HellSign sell?

Q: How many copies did HellSign sell?

57k to 92k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–92k; $312k–$838k after Steam's cut $566k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 HellSign and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HellSign's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 174k–189k

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like HellSign

A typical game among these

≈ 174k–189k copies

≈ $186k–$766k after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 279 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Online Co-Op + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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