How much revenue did Heroes of Scene make?

Heroes of Scene is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Heroes of Scene sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes of Scene sell?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 671 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; from 671 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 Heroes of Scene and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes of Scene's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–7.3M

best case 9.1M (Satisfactory)

Games like Heroes of Scene

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–7.3M copies

≈ $34.0M–$95.6M after Steam's cut

from ~123k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Satisfactory at ≈ 6.9M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.3M–$205.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 79 to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (8 of 8) and Building (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Automation, priced around $40.
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 61 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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RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
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