How much revenue did We Could Be Heroes make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did We Could Be Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did We Could Be Heroes sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 44 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 We Could Be Heroes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including We Could Be Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–309k

best case 1.7M (Rivals of Aether)

Games like We Could Be Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 213k–309k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Rivals of Aether at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 922 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Fighter (7 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Online Co-Op + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 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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