How much revenue did Hidden Boxes make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden Boxes sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden Boxes sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 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.

Does this actually work?

We left Hidden Boxes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Boxes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260–733

best case 16k (Dead District: Survival)

Games like Hidden Boxes

The middle of these games

≈ 260–733 copies

≈ $324–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~14 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead District: Survival at ≈ 12k–19k copies, ≈ $33k–$88k 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 6 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 265.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (7 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Survival + Multiplayer + Massively Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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