How much revenue did Hypnospace Outlaw make?

$876k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hypnospace Outlaw sell?

Q: How many copies did Hypnospace Outlaw sell?

159k to 259k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 159k–259k; $876k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut; from 6k 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 Hypnospace Outlaw out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hypnospace Outlaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–33k

best case 388k (Pool 2D - Poolians)

Games like Hypnospace Outlaw

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–33k copies

≈ $31k–$168k after Steam's cut

from ~338 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pool 2D - Poolians at ≈ 296k–481k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 226 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 459.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pool + Simulation.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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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