How much revenue did Hero Generations make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero Generations sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero Generations sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 223 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $33k–$74k before Steam's cut; from 223 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 Generations and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hero Generations's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–104k

best case 895k (Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic)

Games like Hero Generations

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–104k copies

≈ $80k–$612k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Grand Strategy (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic at ≈ 682k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 947 reviews in their first month; the range was 200 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + City Builder, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 2024	Est. copies ≈ 682k–1.1M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$31.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Terraformers 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SimulationProcedural Generation
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona 2022	Est. copies ≈ 55k–90k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $151k–$407k after Steam's cut $275k–$626k before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Text-BasedSimulation
Pixel Starships 2023	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Sci-fiSpace
Hero Generations: ReGen 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before Steam's cut	$14.99	92 reviews Mixed	Rogue-like 4X
Rogue State Revolution 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13k–22k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $48k–$129k after Steam's cut $87k–$199k before Steam's cut	$12.99	543 reviews Mostly Positive	SandboxAtmospheric
Ragnorium 2022	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $106k–$285k after Steam's cut $193k–$439k before Steam's cut	$24.99	623 reviews Mixed	SurvivalHistorical
Rogue Hex 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$160k before Steam's cut	$19.99	284 reviews Very Positive	Early Access4X