How much revenue did HEDE Game Engine make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HEDE Game Engine sell?

Q: How many copies did HEDE Game Engine sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before the cut; from 12 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 HEDE Game Engine out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HEDE Game Engine's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 214k–299k

best case 298k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like HEDE Game Engine

The middle of these games

≈ 214k–299k copies

≈ $930k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 227k–369k copies, ≈ $623k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 251 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Programming (8 of 8) and Education (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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