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How many copies did Hextones sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$540–$1k after Steam's cut $982–$2k before the cut
from 80 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 Hextones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hextones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–38k
best case 210k (Faerie Solitaire)
Games like Hextones

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–38k copies

≈ $69k–$140k after Steam's cut

from ~559 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Faerie Solitaire at ≈ 160k–259k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Solitaire + Board Game, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry RPG + Cute + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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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