How many copies has Hive sold?

indielist estimates Hive has sold between 8,784 and 20,496 units (median 14,640), derived from its 244 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Hive was published by BlueLine Games, developed by BlueLine Games. See BlueLine Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Hive have on Steam?

Hive has 244 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.

Is Hive worth playing?

Steam players rate Hive 84% positive across 244 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Hive

Mar 20, 2014 Casual $9.99

Developer BlueLine Games Publisher BlueLine Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Casual indie game Hive launched in 2014 from BlueLine Games, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 311 Steam reviews at 84% positive, a modest but mostly positive signal, and an initial budget price of $9.99.

Hive is a 2014 Casual game developed by BlueLine Games and published by BlueLine Games. On Steam it has gathered 244 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer BlueLine Games with publisher BlueLine Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 9,000 to 20,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hive can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

244

Positive

84%

Steam appid

251210

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

9K to 20K

units (median: 15K)

≈ $50K to $117K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

9K median 20K

+ How is this calculated?

244 reviews × NB(60) = 14,640 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_84%	0
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	60

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hive at roughly 9,000 to 20,000 copies, with a median around 15,000, derived from its 244 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $84K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

7 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-22.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

CasualIndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hive sold?: indielist estimates Hive has sold between 8,784 and 20,496 units (median 14,640), derived from its 244 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hive?: Hive was developed by BlueLine Games and published by BlueLine Games.
Who published Hive?: Hive was published by BlueLine Games, developed by BlueLine Games. See BlueLine Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hive released?: Hive was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Hive have on Steam?: Hive has 244 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Is Hive worth playing?: Steam players rate Hive 84% positive across 244 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Hive can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, BlueLine Games's other releases and BlueLine Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hive sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hive page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.