How much revenue did Hellsweeper VR make?

$85k–$227k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hellsweeper VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Hellsweeper VR sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 620 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $85k–$227k after Steam's cut $154k–$350k before the cut; from 620 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 Hellsweeper VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hellsweeper VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–64k

best case 91k (Army of Ruin)

Games like Hellsweeper VR

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–64k copies

≈ $114k–$320k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Army of Ruin at ≈ 69k–112k copies, ≈ $152k–$409k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 492 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 3 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 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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