How much revenue did Hello Goodboy make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hello Goodboy sell?

Q: How many copies did Hello Goodboy sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before the cut; from 160 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 Hello Goodboy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hello Goodboy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 203k–271k

best case 450k (Little Kitty, Big City)

Games like Hello Goodboy

The middle of these games

≈ 203k–271k copies

≈ $1.6M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 608 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 321 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (7 of 8) and Cozy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Cozy, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Cozy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 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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