How much revenue did The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki make?

$586k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki sell?

Q: How many copies did The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki sell?

43k to 69k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–69k; $586k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–17k

best case 34k (The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria-)

Games like The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–17k copies

≈ $5k–$414k after Steam's cut

from ~52 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria- at ≈ 26k–42k copies, ≈ $414k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 383.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and JRPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Interactive Fiction, priced around $58.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria- 2025	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k 20x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $414k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $752k–$1.7M before the cut	$57.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	RPGJRPG
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Blood Soaked Bastard! 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $746–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$1.99	55 reviews Very Positive	AdventureRPG
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