How much revenue did Hero of Fate make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero of Fate sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero of Fate sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 568 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut; from 568 reviews (Very 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 Hero of Fate and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hero of Fate's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 194k–2.1M

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Hero of Fate

A typical game among these

≈ 194k–2.1M copies

≈ $2.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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Crusader Kings III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut $88.4M–$201.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	143k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMedieval
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