How much revenue did 3 Minute Heroes make?

$30k–$81k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 3 Minute Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did 3 Minute Heroes sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 222 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $55k–$125k before Steam's cut; from 222 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 3 Minute Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 3 Minute Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 993k–5.1M

best case 15.8M (Bloons TD 6)

Games like 3 Minute Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 993k–5.1M copies

≈ $4.9M–$24.4M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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.

Best case: Bloons TD 6 at ≈ 12.0M–19.6M copies, ≈ $46.3M–$124.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Base-Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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