How much revenue did Hell Pie make?

$306k–$822k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hell Pie sell?

Q: How many copies did Hell Pie sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $306k–$822k after Steam's cut $556k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Hell Pie and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hell Pie's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 865k–1.8M

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Hell Pie

A typical game among these

≈ 865k–1.8M copies

≈ $8.4M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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 79 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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