How much revenue did Heroes of Yore make?

$334–$897 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes of Yore sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes of Yore sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $334–$897 after Steam's cut $608–$1k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Heroes of Yore and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes of Yore's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–122k

best case 163k (DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake)

Games like Heroes of Yore

A typical game among these

≈ 46k–122k copies

≈ $124k–$673k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake at ≈ 124k–202k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 322 reviews in their first month; the range was 169 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Combat (6 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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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