How much revenue did Heroes Rise: HeroFall make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes Rise: HeroFall sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes Rise: HeroFall sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 138 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before Steam's cut; from 138 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 Heroes Rise: HeroFall and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes Rise: HeroFall's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–595k

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Heroes Rise: HeroFall

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–595k copies

≈ $9k–$526k after Steam's cut

from ~288 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 217.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Text-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Heroes Rise: The Prodigy 2014	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $31k–$83k after Steam's cut $56k–$128k before Steam's cut	$4.99	403 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGChoose Your Own Adventure
Heroes Rise: The Hero Project 2014	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before Steam's cut	$5.99	173 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieRPG
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 135x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CyberpunkVisual Novel
Will Die Alone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$4.99	67 reviews Mostly Positive	Text-BasedSimulation
Noctuary 2023	Est. copies ≈ 65k–106k 9.2x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $540k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $982k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	3k reviews Very Positive	CuteInteractive Fiction
Life is Strange - Episode 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M 612x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	176k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
Grand Academy for Future Villains 2017	Est. copies ≈ 894–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$5.99	26 reviews Mixed	IndieAdventure
UNMEMORY 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut	$9.99	103 reviews Very Positive	MysteryAdventure