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How many copies did Hidden Industries Top-Down 3D sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 744–1k
$41k–$110k after Steam's cut $74k–$169k before the cut
from 30 reviews (Mixed)

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 Industries Top-Down 3D out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Industries Top-Down 3D's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 977–1k
best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)
Games like Hidden Industries Top-Down 3D

The middle of these games

≈ 977–1k copies

≈ $3k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~32 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M 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 208k 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 Story Rich (4 of 8) and Card Battler (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Management + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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