How much revenue did Mr. Sun's Hatbox make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mr. Sun's Hatbox sell?

Q: How many copies did Mr. Sun's Hatbox sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 517 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$219k before the cut; from 517 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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mr. Sun's Hatbox's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.2M–21.7M

best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Mr. Sun's Hatbox

The middle of these games

≈ 11.2M–21.7M copies

≈ $83.7M–$216.5M after Steam's cut

from ~261k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + FPS. The breakout hits carry PvP + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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Counter-Strike 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9.8M reviews Very Positive	FPSShooter
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