How much revenue did Loop Hero make?

$3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Loop Hero sell?

Q: How many copies did Loop Hero sell?

907k to 1.5M copies, based on its 37k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 907k–1.5M; $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut; from 37k reviews (Very 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 Loop Hero and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Loop Hero's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 432k–814k

best case 6.5M (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Games like Loop Hero

A typical game among these

≈ 432k–814k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: FTL: Faster Than Light at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Turn-Based (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Space, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Space + Perma Death + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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