How much revenue did CyberHive make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CyberHive sell?

Q: How many copies did CyberHive sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before the cut; from 77 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 CyberHive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CyberHive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 863k–5.9M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like CyberHive

The middle of these games

≈ 863k–5.9M copies

≈ $12.1M–$55.5M after Steam's cut

from ~79k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 137 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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