How much revenue did HOPE LEFT ME make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HOPE LEFT ME sell?

Q: How many copies did HOPE LEFT ME sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 910 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before the cut; from 910 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 HOPE LEFT ME out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HOPE LEFT ME's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–19k

best case 133k (HENPRI)

Games like HOPE LEFT ME

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–19k copies

≈ $3k–$91k after Steam's cut

from ~134 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: HENPRI at ≈ 101k–165k copies, ≈ $696k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 30 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Noir (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark Humor + Visual Novel, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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