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How many copies did The Hell in I sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before the cut
from 14 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left The Hell in I out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hell in I's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 166k–264k
best case 1.8M (The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered)
Games like The Hell in I

The middle of these games

≈ 166k–264k copies

≈ $618k–$2.6M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered at ≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies, ≈ $18.6M–$50.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 171 to 18k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Story Rich, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Choices Matter + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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