How many copies did Hanako: Honor & Blade sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 238 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Hanako: Honor & Blade make?

Hanako: Honor & Blade is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Hanako: Honor & Blade?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 6k–10k; from 238 reviews (Mostly 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 Hanako: Honor & Blade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hanako: Honor & Blade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 859k–1.9M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Hanako: Honor & Blade

A typical game among these

≈ 859k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.5M–$17.6M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (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: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 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 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Third Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Action + Third Person + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, and 2 of the 7 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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Palworld 2026	Est. copies ≈ 12.2M–19.8M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $100.5M–$270.1M after Steam's cut $182.7M–$415.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	491k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldSurvival
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M 8.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $27.9M–$75.1M after Steam's cut $50.8M–$115.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	205k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	34k reviews Very Positive	Warhammer 40KAction