How much revenue did Hero of the Kingdom III make?

$131k–$352k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero of the Kingdom III sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero of the Kingdom III sell?

48k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 48k–77k; $131k–$352k after Steam's cut $238k–$541k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Hero of the Kingdom III and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hero of the Kingdom III's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.2M

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Hero of the Kingdom III

A typical game among these

≈ 3.0M–5.2M copies

≈ $26.5M–$62.7M after Steam's cut

from ~94k 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: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 49k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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