How much revenue did The Dark Heart of Balor make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dark Heart of Balor sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dark Heart of Balor sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 24 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Dark Heart of Balor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dark Heart of Balor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82–277

best case 14k (Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora)

Games like The Dark Heart of Balor

A typical game among these

≈ 82–277 copies

≈ $160–$471 after Steam's cut

from ~4 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora at ≈ 11k–18k copies, ≈ $45k–$120k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 6 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Side Scroller, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Open World + Female Protagonist + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 of the 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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