How much revenue did Hollywood Animal make?

$571k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hollywood Animal sell?

Q: How many copies did Hollywood Animal sell?

104k to 169k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 104k–169k; $571k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before the cut; from 4k 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 Hollywood Animal out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hollywood Animal's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 623k–783k

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Hollywood Animal

The middle of these games

≈ 623k–783k copies

≈ $5.8M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

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

Best case: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.4M–$92.4M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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