How much revenue did Hypnospace Outlaw make?

$882k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hypnospace Outlaw sell?

Q: How many copies did Hypnospace Outlaw sell?

160k to 261k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 160k–261k; $882k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Hypnospace Outlaw and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hypnospace Outlaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–33k

best case 390k (Pool 2D - Poolians)

Games like Hypnospace Outlaw

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–33k copies

≈ $31k–$168k after Steam's cut

from ~338 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: Pool 2D - Poolians at ≈ 297k–483k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 226 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 459.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pool + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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