How much revenue did HANGMAN make?

$439–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HANGMAN sell?

Q: How many copies did HANGMAN sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 56 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $439–$1k after Steam's cut $798–$2k before the cut; from 56 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 HANGMAN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HANGMAN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–4k

best case 270k (Homicipher)

Games like HANGMAN

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–4k copies

≈ $2k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~76 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Homicipher at ≈ 206k–334k copies, ≈ $791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 3k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Word Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Multiple Endings, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Multiple Endings + Otome + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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LONGEYED PROJ 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut	$4.99	103 reviews Mixed	Horror2D
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