How much revenue did Hiveswap Friendsim make?

$151k–$406k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hiveswap Friendsim sell?

Q: How many copies did Hiveswap Friendsim sell?

42k to 69k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–69k; $151k–$406k after Steam's cut $274k–$624k before the cut; from 1k 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 Hiveswap Friendsim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hiveswap Friendsim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244k–553k

best case 1.1M (NEKOPARA Vol. 0)

Games like Hiveswap Friendsim

The middle of these games

≈ 244k–553k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.3M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: NEKOPARA Vol. 0 at ≈ 868k–1.4M copies, ≈ $714k–$1.9M 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 800 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Nudity, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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