How much revenue did A Hat in Time make?

$15.1M–$40.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Hat in Time sell?

Q: How many copies did A Hat in Time sell?

1.8M to 3.0M copies, based on its 53k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–3.0M; $15.1M–$40.7M after Steam's cut $27.5M–$62.7M before the cut; from 53k 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 A Hat in Time out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Hat in Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 232k–643k

best case 842k (Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy)

Games like A Hat in Time

The middle of these games

≈ 232k–643k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (3 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: Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy at ≈ 642k–1.0M copies, ≈ $7.1M–$19.0M after Steam's cut.

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 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (3 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Remake, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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