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How many copies did Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$692–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 51 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–189k
best case 305k (Carto)
Games like Hidden Shapes Animals - Jigsaw Puzzle Game

The middle of these games

≈ 36k–189k copies

≈ $128k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Carto at ≈ 232k–377k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 286 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Hand-drawn (5 of 8) and Nature (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Exploration, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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