How much revenue did Hexologic make?

$57k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hexologic sell?

Q: How many copies did Hexologic sell?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut; from 1k 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 Hexologic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hexologic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 353k–757k

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like Hexologic

The middle of these games

≈ 353k–757k copies

≈ $2.2M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 539 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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