How much revenue did Million to One Hero make?

Million to One Hero is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Million to One Hero sell?

Q: How many copies did Million to One Hero sell?

922 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 922–1k; from 32 reviews (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 Million to One Hero and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Million to One Hero's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 876k–1.5M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Million to One Hero

A typical game among these

≈ 876k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.8M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~37k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 14k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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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