How much revenue did Sword vs Horde make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword vs Horde sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword vs Horde sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Sword vs Horde and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword vs Horde's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–752k

best case 3.5M (Hero Siege)

Games like Sword vs Horde

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–752k copies

≈ $528k–$2.7M 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: Hero Siege at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 3 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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