How much revenue did Hitler Waifu make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hitler Waifu sell?

Q: How many copies did Hitler Waifu sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 1k 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 Hitler Waifu out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hitler Waifu's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k

best case 38k (Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend)

Games like Hitler Waifu

The middle of these games

≈ 1k copies

≈ $1k–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~37 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend at ≈ 29k–47k copies, ≈ $119k–$321k 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 20 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 278.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (5 of 8) and Arena Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Action-Adventure, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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