How much revenue did Hard Minus Classic Redux make?

$367–$986 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hard Minus Classic Redux sell?

Q: How many copies did Hard Minus Classic Redux sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $367–$986 after Steam's cut $667–$2k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 Hard Minus Classic Redux out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hard Minus Classic Redux's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–109k

best case 769k (Neon Abyss)

Games like Hard Minus Classic Redux

The middle of these games

≈ 55k–109k copies

≈ $210k–$603k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Neon Abyss at ≈ 586k–952k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 838 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 540 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Side Scroller (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Loot + Procedural Generation + Replay Value; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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