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How big is Heroes of Time - Aizack's Return?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 422–685
from 17 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 Time - Aizack's Return and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes of Time - Aizack's Return's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–626k
best case 1.7M (Quantum Break)
Games like Heroes of Time - Aizack's Return

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–626k copies

≈ $44k–$10.9M 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: Quantum Break at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Time Manipulation, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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