How much revenue did Harold Halibut make?

$320k–$860k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Harold Halibut sell?

Q: How many copies did Harold Halibut sell?

33k to 54k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–54k; $320k–$860k after Steam's cut $581k–$1.3M 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 Harold Halibut and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Harold Halibut's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 459k–2.3M

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like Harold Halibut

A typical game among these

≈ 459k–2.3M copies

≈ $5.6M–$30.5M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 722 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Cinematic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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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