How much revenue did HyperBowl make?

$629–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HyperBowl sell?

Q: How many copies did HyperBowl sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $629–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 76 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 HyperBowl out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HyperBowl's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–4.0M

best case 37.1M (Rocket League®)

Games like HyperBowl

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–4.0M copies

≈ $20.2M–$36.5M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and VR (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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