How much revenue did Giant Hornet make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Giant Hornet sell?

Q: How many copies did Giant Hornet sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 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 Giant Hornet out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Giant Hornet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 429k–1.1M

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Giant Hornet

The middle of these games

≈ 429k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.3M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 5) and Life Sim (4 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: Only 1 of your 5 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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