How much revenue did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition make?

$764k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition sell?

185k to 301k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 185k–301k; $764k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–385k

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–385k copies

≈ $200k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut. 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 181 reviews in their first month; the range was 142 to 463.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Funny + Comedy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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