How much revenue did Twin Stick Heroes make?

$305–$826 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Twin Stick Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did Twin Stick Heroes sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $305–$826 after Steam's cut $555–$1k before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Twin Stick Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Twin Stick Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–151k

best case 2.1M (HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition)

Games like Twin Stick Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–151k copies

≈ $60k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Twin Stick Shooter (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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