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How many copies did Actua Ice Hockey sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$327–$880 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before the cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Actua Ice Hockey out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Actua Ice Hockey's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–8k
best case 89k (Eastside Hockey Manager)
Games like Actua Ice Hockey

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–8k copies

≈ $48k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~154 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Eastside Hockey Manager at ≈ 67k–110k copies, ≈ $371k–$997k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 55 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 73.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Hockey (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Hockey + Sports, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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