How much revenue did Hornet the Vanguard make?

$816–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hornet the Vanguard sell?

Q: How many copies did Hornet the Vanguard sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $816–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 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 Hornet the Vanguard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hornet the Vanguard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–711k

best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)

Games like Hornet the Vanguard

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–711k copies

≈ $264k–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 176 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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