How much revenue did The Heroes Around Me make?

$37k–$99k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Heroes Around Me sell?

Q: How many copies did The Heroes Around Me sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 770 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $37k–$99k after Steam's cut $67k–$152k before Steam's cut; from 770 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Heroes Around Me and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Heroes Around Me's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.7M

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like The Heroes Around Me

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies

≈ $1.7M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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