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How big is Hare Apparent?

Estimated owners
≈ 1k–2k
from 43 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 Hare Apparent out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hare Apparent's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 249k–391k
best case 2.1M (Emily is Away)
Games like Hare Apparent

The middle of these games

≈ 249k–391k copies

≈ $968k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Emily is Away at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 448 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 70 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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