How much revenue did Forest Heroes make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forest Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did Forest Heroes sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 296 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$83k before Steam's cut; from 296 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 Forest Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–13k

best case 117k (Overdungeon)

Games like Forest Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–13k copies

≈ $7k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~93 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Overdungeon at ≈ 89k–145k copies, ≈ $369k–$991k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 38 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 747.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Card Battler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Battler, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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