How many copies did Because its hot! Prologue sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Because its hot! Prologue make?

Because its hot! Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Because its hot! Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 223–363; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 reviews. 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 Because its hot! Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Because its hot! Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–3.8M

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Because its hot! Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–3.8M copies

≈ $17.4M–$27.8M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 749 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, 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 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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