How much revenue did Mustache in Hell make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mustache in Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Mustache in Hell sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 73 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 Mustache in Hell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mustache in Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 174k–235k

best case 565k (Touhou Luna Nights)

Games like Mustache in Hell

The middle of these games

≈ 174k–235k copies

≈ $289k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Touhou Luna Nights at ≈ 430k–699k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 591 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Bullet Hell, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Exploration + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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