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How many copies did Hornet the Vanguard2:The fox smirks sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$142–$385 after Steam's cut $259–$592 before the cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 3 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 Vanguard2:The fox smirks out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hornet the Vanguard2:The fox smirks's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–24k
best case 65k (IMMORTALITY)
Games like Hornet the Vanguard2:The fox smirks

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–24k copies

≈ $51k–$123k after Steam's cut

from ~439 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choose Your Own Adventure (4 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: IMMORTALITY at ≈ 49k–80k copies, ≈ $271k–$728k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 45 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 370.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Hidden Object + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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