How much revenue did Hero of Fate make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hero of Fate sell?

Q: How many copies did Hero of Fate sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 568 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before the cut; from 568 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 Hero of Fate out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hero of Fate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 193k–2.1M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Hero of Fate

The middle of these games

≈ 193k–2.1M copies

≈ $2.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 of your 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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