How much revenue did MatchR: Now Hiring make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MatchR: Now Hiring sell?

Q: How many copies did MatchR: Now Hiring sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 74 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 MatchR: Now Hiring out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MatchR: Now Hiring's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–101k

best case 224k (The Legend of Bum-Bo)

Games like MatchR: Now Hiring

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–101k copies

≈ $6k–$364k after Steam's cut

from ~626 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.

Best case: The Legend of Bum-Bo at ≈ 171k–278k copies, ≈ $704k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23 to 30.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Match 3 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Puzzle, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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