How much revenue did Has-Been Heroes make?

$74k–$199k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Has-Been Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did Has-Been Heroes sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 392 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $135k–$307k before Steam's cut; from 392 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 Has-Been Heroes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Has-Been Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 272k–443k

best case 4.0M (Realm of the Mad God Exalt)

Games like Has-Been Heroes

A typical game among these

≈ 272k–443k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Realm of the Mad God Exalt at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 3 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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