How much revenue did ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator make?

$407–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $407–$1k after Steam's cut $740–$2k before the cut; from 30 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 ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–4.1M

best case 4.4M (Teardown)

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The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–4.1M copies

≈ $8.8M–$22.5M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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 First-Person (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: Teardown at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.7M–$74.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Sandbox (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Destruction + Physics, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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