How much revenue did Meanings hidden in plain sight make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Meanings hidden in plain sight sell?

Q: How many copies did Meanings hidden in plain sight sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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 Meanings hidden in plain sight out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Meanings hidden in plain sight's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–159k

best case 262k (Scribble It!)

Games like Meanings hidden in plain sight

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–159k copies

≈ $162k–$575k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 200k–324k copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 625 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 Word Game (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Comedy.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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