How much revenue did The Hurt in Secret make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hurt in Secret sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hurt in Secret sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before the cut; from 20 reviews (Mostly 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 The Hurt in Secret out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hurt in Secret's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 568k–815k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The Hurt in Secret

The middle of these games

≈ 568k–815k copies

≈ $619k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 850k–1.4M copies, ≈ $348k–$936k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 93 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
The era: Only 3 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante 2021	Est. copies ≈ 315k–512k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.2M before the cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
The NOexistenceN of you AND me 2024	Est. copies ≈ 544k–885k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $298k–$801k after Steam's cut $542k–$1.2M before the cut	$1.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror
LA FORET DE PAGO 2 : SOUVENIR DE GLACE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$11.99	28 reviews Positive	EducationSpelling
Coaching Simulator 2024	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$113 before the cut	$1.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Early AccessSimulation
LA FORET DE PAGO : LA VENGEANCE DU DRAGON 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut	$5.99	46 reviews Positive	EducationSpelling
Adventures in Morality: An Interactive Case Study 2020	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	15 reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyExperimental
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 850k–1.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $348k–$936k after Steam's cut $633k–$1.4M before the cut	$1.49	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror
Until Then 2024	Est. copies ≈ 472k–768k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before the cut	$19.99	19k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelPixel Graphics