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How big is High Entropy: Challenges?

Estimated owners
≈ 31k–51k
from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 High Entropy: Challenges out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High Entropy: Challenges's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 945k–2.6M
best case 7.3M (Dishonored)
Games like High Entropy: Challenges

The middle of these games

≈ 945k–2.6M copies

≈ $6.1M–$27.1M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Dishonored at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Stealth (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Stealth + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 1 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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