How much revenue did Kind Heart Defenders make?

$816–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kind Heart Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Kind Heart Defenders sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $816–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 30 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 Kind Heart Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kind Heart Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187–52k

best case 916k (STAR WARS™: Squadrons)

Games like Kind Heart Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 187–52k copies

≈ $436–$472k after Steam's cut

from ~26 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: STAR WARS™: Squadrons at ≈ 698k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 12k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Space, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 698k–1.1M 1083x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before the cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
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