How much revenue did Heroes of Book & Paper make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes of Book & Paper sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes of Book & Paper sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (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 Heroes of Book & Paper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes of Book & Paper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.0M–8.4M

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Heroes of Book & Paper

A typical game among these

≈ 5.0M–8.4M copies

≈ $21.0M–$73.1M after Steam's cut

from ~163k 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
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Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
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