How much revenue did Hello World make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hello World sell?

Q: How many copies did Hello World sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 58 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 Hello World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hello World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–997k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like Hello World

The middle of these games

≈ 352k–997k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

Best case: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 455 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 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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