How much revenue did Hell Pie make?

$300k–$807k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hell Pie sell?

Q: How many copies did Hell Pie sell?

44k to 71k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–71k; $300k–$807k after Steam's cut $546k–$1.2M before the cut; from 2k 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 Hell Pie out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hell Pie's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 859k–1.8M

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Hell Pie

The middle of these games

≈ 859k–1.8M copies

≈ $8.4M–$13.8M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.1M–$40.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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