How much revenue did Kingdom Heroes 8 make?

$3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kingdom Heroes 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did Kingdom Heroes 8 sell?

365k to 593k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 365k–593k; $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut; from 15k 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 Kingdom Heroes 8 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kingdom Heroes 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–443k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Kingdom Heroes 8

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–443k copies

≈ $275k–$449k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fantasy (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 765 reviews in their first month; the range was 386 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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Conqueror's Blade 2019	Est. copies ≈ 859k–1.4M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Mostly Positive	MedievalTactical
Trigon: Space Story 2022	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $194k–$522k after Steam's cut $353k–$802k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mixed	IsometricRogue-like
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Game of Thrones Winter is Coming 2019	Est. copies ≈ 80k–129k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayStrategy
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