How much revenue did Valiant Hearts: Coming Home make?

$57k–$154k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Valiant Hearts: Coming Home sell?

Q: How many copies did Valiant Hearts: Coming Home sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 561 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$237k before Steam's cut; from 561 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 Valiant Hearts: Coming Home and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Valiant Hearts: Coming Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 356k–826k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

A typical game among these

≈ 356k–826k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies. 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 749 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 79 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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