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How many copies did Hidden Western sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$67k–$180k after Steam's cut $121k–$276k before the cut
from 49 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 566k–1.7M
best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)
Games like Hidden Western

The middle of these games

≈ 566k–1.7M copies

≈ $2.5M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 73k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $60.
The era
Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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