How much revenue did 100 hidden aliens make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 100 hidden aliens sell?

Q: How many copies did 100 hidden aliens sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 536 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut; from 536 reviews (Very 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 100 hidden aliens out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 100 hidden aliens's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–74k

best case 146k (A Building Full of Cats)

Games like 100 hidden aliens

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–74k copies

≈ $9k–$99k after Steam's cut

from ~801 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Building Full of Cats at ≈ 111k–181k copies, ≈ $91k–$246k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 66 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 695.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hand-drawn (8 of 8) and Hidden Object (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $3.
The era: Only 1 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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