How much revenue did El Hijo - A Wild West Tale make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did El Hijo - A Wild West Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did El Hijo - A Wild West Tale sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 232 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $58k–$131k before Steam's cut; from 232 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 El Hijo - A Wild West Tale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including El Hijo - A Wild West Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 263k–4.8M

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

A typical game among these

≈ 263k–4.8M copies

≈ $2.4M–$20.2M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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Escape the Backrooms 2025	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut $20.7M–$47.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	167k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder
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