How much revenue did Hacker's Beat make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hacker's Beat sell?

Q: How many copies did Hacker's Beat sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 60 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before the cut; from 60 reviews (Mixed)

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 Hacker's Beat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hacker's Beat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–882k

best case 3.1M (A Dance of Fire and Ice)

Games like Hacker's Beat

The middle of these games

≈ 352k–882k copies

≈ $2.3M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Dance of Fire and Ice at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Music, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, 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 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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AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 701k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before the cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ 2022	Est. copies ≈ 585k–950k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.2M before the cut	$39.39	24k reviews Very Positive	RhythmAnime
A Dance of Fire and Ice 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M 9.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.4M before the cut	$5.99	83k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMusic
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