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How many copies did Chicken Hill sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 29k–47k
$24k–$64k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before the cut
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 Chicken Hill out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chicken Hill's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–78k
best case 147k (A Castle Full of Cats)
Games like Chicken Hill

The middle of these games

≈ 70k–78k copies

≈ $27k–$108k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Castle Full of Cats at ≈ 112k–182k copies, ≈ $123k–$330k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 319 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 52 to 807.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Cats (8 of 8) and Hidden Object (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Creature Collector + Wholesome + Cozy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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SteamSpy 20k–50k
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$5.99
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1.9x vs typical
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