How much revenue did Heat Signature make?

$1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heat Signature sell?

Q: How many copies did Heat Signature sell?

255k to 415k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 255k–415k; $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before the cut; from 7k 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 Heat Signature out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heat Signature's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.7M–36.4M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Heat Signature

The middle of these games

≈ 8.7M–36.4M copies

≈ $174.1M–$308.4M after Steam's cut

from ~388k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.6M–69.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut $212.8M–$484.2M before the cut	$9.99	674k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.1M–39.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $165.8M–$445.8M after Steam's cut $301.5M–$685.8M before the cut	$24.99	494k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.2M–16.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $168.6M–$453.2M after Steam's cut $306.5M–$697.3M before the cut	$59.99	355k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 38.7M–62.9M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut $386.7M–$879.7M before the cut	$19.99	930k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.4M–17.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $28.7M–$77.0M after Steam's cut $52.1M–$118.5M before the cut	$9.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.2M–$253.2M after Steam's cut $171.3M–$389.6M before the cut	$59.99	188k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Far Cry® 5 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $94.6M–$254.3M after Steam's cut $171.9M–$391.2M before the cut	$59.99	189k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction-Adventure
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World