How much revenue did Happy Game make?

$367k–$987k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Happy Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Happy Game sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $367k–$987k after Steam's cut $667k–$1.5M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very 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 Happy Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Happy Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–42k

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Happy Game

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–42k copies

≈ $1k–$68k after Steam's cut

from ~63 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M 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 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 40k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychedelic (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Multiplayer + Psychological Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 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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Neuro Horror 2022	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $183–$490 after Steam's cut $332–$754 before the cut	$0.99	27 reviews Mixed	CasualVisual Novel
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Nix Umbra 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut	$9.99	97 reviews Very Positive	HorrorIndie
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