How much revenue did Heroes Wanted make?

$77k–$207k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes Wanted sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes Wanted sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 565 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before Steam's cut; from 565 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 Heroes Wanted and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes Wanted's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 749k–905k

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Heroes Wanted

A typical game among these

≈ 749k–905k copies

≈ $5.4M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Deckbuilding, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Roguelike Deckbuilder + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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