How much revenue did Hylics make?

$362k–$974k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hylics sell?

Q: How many copies did Hylics sell?

441k to 716k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 441k–716k; $362k–$974k after Steam's cut $659k–$1.5M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Hylics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hylics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–36k

best case 116k (Hylics 2)

Games like Hylics

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–36k copies

≈ $3k–$33k after Steam's cut

from ~237 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 Abstract (3 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: Hylics 2 at ≈ 88k–143k copies, ≈ $364k–$978k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Abstract (3 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal + Psychedelic, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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The Endless Empty 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut	$3.99	318 reviews Very Positive	RPGIndie
Hylics 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 88k–143k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $364k–$978k after Steam's cut $662k–$1.5M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGSurreal
Close Your Eyes [Old Version] 2015	Est. copies ≈ 38k–62k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	782 reviews Very Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureExploration
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