How much revenue did Pine Hearts make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pine Hearts sell?

Q: How many copies did Pine Hearts sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut; from 120 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 Pine Hearts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pine Hearts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 144k–301k

best case 450k (Little Kitty, Big City)

Games like Pine Hearts

The middle of these games

≈ 144k–301k copies

≈ $861k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Little Kitty, Big City at ≈ 342k–557k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 792 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 321 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Wholesome, priced around $25.
The era: Only 2 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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