How much revenue did Hero Planter make?

$525–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero Planter sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero Planter sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $525–$1k after Steam's cut $954–$2k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Planter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hero Planter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 936–4k

best case 9k (Museum No.9)

Games like Hero Planter

A typical game among these

≈ 936–4k copies

≈ $5k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~50 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Museum No.9 at ≈ 7k–11k copies, ≈ $18k–$49k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 194.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Rogue-lite, priced around $10.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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