How much revenue did Hiveswap Friendsim make?

$151k–$405k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hiveswap Friendsim sell?

Q: How many copies did Hiveswap Friendsim sell?

42k to 68k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–68k; $151k–$405k after Steam's cut $274k–$623k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Hiveswap Friendsim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hiveswap Friendsim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 246k–552k

best case 1.1M (NEKOPARA Vol. 0)

Games like Hiveswap Friendsim

A typical game among these

≈ 246k–552k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: NEKOPARA Vol. 0 at ≈ 869k–1.4M copies, ≈ $715k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

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 800 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Nudity, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 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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NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
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