How much revenue did We Could Be Heroes make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did We Could Be Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did We Could Be Heroes sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 44 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 We Could Be Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including We Could Be Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–311k

best case 1.7M (Rivals of Aether)

Games like We Could Be Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 213k–311k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Rivals of Aether at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 922 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (7 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Online Co-Op + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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