How much revenue did Sunset Hills make?

$75k–$203k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunset Hills sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunset Hills sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 615 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $75k–$203k after Steam's cut $137k–$312k before the cut; from 615 reviews (Mixed)

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 Sunset Hills out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunset Hills's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–34k

best case 272k (Cat Quest II)

Games like Sunset Hills

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–34k copies

≈ $47k–$289k after Steam's cut

from ~400 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dog (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cat Quest II at ≈ 207k–337k copies, ≈ $854k–$2.3M 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 90 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 525.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dog (3 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Action RPG, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Action RPG + Hack and Slash + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. 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 43 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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