How much revenue did HyperBowl make?

$637–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HyperBowl sell?

Q: How many copies did HyperBowl sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $637–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 77 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 HyperBowl and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HyperBowl's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–4.0M

best case 37.2M (Rocket League®)

Games like HyperBowl

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–4.0M copies

≈ $25.5M–$52.4M after Steam's cut

from ~84k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies. 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 26k reviews in their first month; the range was 18k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and VR (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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