How much revenue did Folk Hero make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Folk Hero sell?

Q: How many copies did Folk Hero sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 208 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut; from 208 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Folk Hero out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Folk Hero's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 325k–673k

best case 4.2M (Cult of the Lamb)

Games like Folk Hero

The middle of these games

≈ 325k–673k copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Cult of the Lamb at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 769 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Action Roguelike, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Cute + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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Barony 2015	Est. copies ≈ 878k–1.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$13.0M after Steam's cut $8.8M–$20.0M before the cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerAction Roguelike
Curse of the Dead Gods 2021	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeIsometric
Heroes of Hammerwatch 2018	Est. copies ≈ 290k–471k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$4.9M before the cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-liteAction Roguelike
Crawl 2017	Est. copies ≈ 252k–409k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsLocal Multiplayer
Moonlighter 2018	Est. copies ≈ 735k–1.2M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.7M before the cut	$19.99	24k reviews Very Positive	Hack and SlashPixel Graphics
Tiny Rogues 2022	Est. copies ≈ 267k–433k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $733k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
UnderMine 2020	Est. copies ≈ 244k–397k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Cult of the Lamb 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.2M before the cut	$24.99	129k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingCute