How much revenue did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story make?

$135–$363 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story 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; $135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before the cut; from 20 reviews (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 Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90–98

best case 150k (Highway Blossoms)

Games like Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story

The middle of these games

≈ 90–98 copies

≈ $184–$198 after Steam's cut

from ~3 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Highway Blossoms at ≈ 114k–186k copies, ≈ $408k–$1.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 203 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 Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Time Management, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Indie + LGBTQ+ + Romance; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 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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