How much revenue did The Hunt in the Forest make?

$235–$632 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hunt in the Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hunt in the Forest sell?

864 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 864–1k; $235–$632 after Steam's cut $428–$973 before the cut; from 30 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Hunt in the Forest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hunt in the Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–60k

best case 3.3M (theHunter Classic)

Games like The Hunt in the Forest

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–60k copies

≈ $65k–$323k after Steam's cut

from ~384 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: theHunter Classic at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 135 reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Open World. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Shooter + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 1 of your 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 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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