How much revenue did Hyper Echelon make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hyper Echelon sell?

Q: How many copies did Hyper Echelon sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 68 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 68 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 Hyper Echelon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hyper Echelon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 269k–418k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Hyper Echelon

The middle of these games

≈ 269k–418k copies

≈ $2.1M–$2.9M 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Top-Down Shooter (4 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: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 421 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + Arena Shooter + Top-Down; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 3 of your 8 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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