How much revenue did Kind Heart Defenders make?

$844–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kind Heart Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Kind Heart Defenders sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $844–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 31 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 Kind Heart Defenders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kind Heart Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187–52k

best case 918k (STAR WARS™: Squadrons)

Games like Kind Heart Defenders

A typical game among these

≈ 187–52k copies

≈ $436–$474k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: STAR WARS™: Squadrons at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 12k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Space, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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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STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M 1064x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
THE DREADFUL SPACE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $231–$620 after Steam's cut $420–$954 before Steam's cut	$1.99	17 reviews Positive	IndieAction
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Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War 2014	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k 9.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $75k–$203k after Steam's cut $137k–$312k before Steam's cut	$19.99	245 reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceAction
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