How much revenue did HG Adventure make?

$19k–$52k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HG Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did HG Adventure sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 201 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before the cut; from 201 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 HG Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HG Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228–2.0M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like HG Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 228–2.0M copies

≈ $44k–$21.3M 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 16k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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