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How many copies did Hero Planter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$525–$1k after Steam's cut $954–$2k before the cut
from 11 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 944–3k
best case 9k (Museum No.9)
Games like Hero Planter

The middle of these games

≈ 944–3k copies

≈ $6k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~50 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Museum No.9 at ≈ 7k–11k copies, ≈ $18k–$49k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 194.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Rogue-lite, priced around $10.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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