How much revenue did Be My Horde make?

$145k–$390k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Be My Horde sell?

Q: How many copies did Be My Horde sell?

53k to 86k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–86k; $145k–$390k after Steam's cut $264k–$600k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Be My Horde and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Be My Horde's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 704k–1.5M

best case 4.2M (Cult of the Lamb)

Games like Be My Horde

A typical game among these

≈ 704k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.3M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Cult of the Lamb at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 769 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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Cult of the Lamb 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut $40.3M–$91.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	130k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingCute
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