How much revenue did Heromantic make?

$525–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heromantic sell?

Q: How many copies did Heromantic sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $525–$1k after Steam's cut $954–$2k before the cut; from 11 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 Heromantic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heromantic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 790k–1.9M

best case 3.8M (Mirror 2: Project X)

Games like Heromantic

The middle of these games

≈ 790k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.6M–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~23k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mirror 2: Project X at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 161 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (7 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Anime, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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