How much revenue did Hordes of Hunger make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hordes of Hunger sell?

Q: How many copies did Hordes of Hunger sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 265 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before the cut; from 265 reviews (Mostly 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 Hordes of Hunger out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hordes of Hunger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–164k

best case 1.0M (Halls of Torment)

Games like Hordes of Hunger

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–164k copies

≈ $246k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Halls of Torment at ≈ 788k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.9M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 359 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Bullet Hell + Pixel Graphics + Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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