How much revenue did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.0M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.0M copies

≈ $10.8M–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Choices Matter + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, and none of them 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 70 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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