How much revenue did Eastside Hockey Manager make?

$371k–$997k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eastside Hockey Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Eastside Hockey Manager sell?

67k to 110k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–110k; $371k–$997k after Steam's cut $674k–$1.5M before the cut; from 1k 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 Eastside Hockey Manager out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eastside Hockey Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–7k

best case 13k (Franchise Hockey Manager 6)

Games like Eastside Hockey Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–7k copies

≈ $43k–$58k after Steam's cut

from ~153 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Franchise Hockey Manager 6 at ≈ 10k–16k copies, ≈ $53k–$142k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 49 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 73.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hockey (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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