How much revenue did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness make?

$25k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness sell?

Q: How many copies did Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 241 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $25k–$66k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before the cut; from 241 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 Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–15k

best case 250k (Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery)

Games like Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–15k copies

≈ $10k–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~386 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery at ≈ 191k–310k copies, ≈ $681k–$1.8M 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 240 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 76 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Clicker (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Hentai, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Puzzle; 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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