How much revenue did Hyper Jam make?

$51k–$138k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hyper Jam sell?

Q: How many copies did Hyper Jam sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 500 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $94k–$213k before the cut; from 500 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 Hyper Jam out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hyper Jam's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–5.1M

best case 10.6M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Hyper Jam

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–5.1M copies

≈ $11.8M–$29.7M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 4 Player Local (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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 4 Player Local (4 of 8) and Fast-Paced (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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