How much revenue did Hero Siege make?

$5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero Siege sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero Siege sell?

2.7M to 4.4M copies, based on its 48k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.7M–4.4M; $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.4M before Steam's cut; from 48k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 956k–1.2M

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Hero Siege

A typical game among these

≈ 956k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Hack and Slash (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
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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Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
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