How much revenue did Heroes of Book & Paper make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes of Book & Paper sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes of Book & Paper sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut; from 28 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Heroes of Book & Paper out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes of Book & Paper's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–8.3M

best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Heroes of Book & Paper

The middle of these games

≈ 4.9M–8.3M copies

≈ $20.9M–$72.8M after Steam's cut

from ~161k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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