How much revenue did Sword vs Horde make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword vs Horde sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword vs Horde sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before the cut; from 20 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 Sword vs Horde out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword vs Horde's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–748k

best case 3.5M (Hero Siege)

Games like Sword vs Horde

The middle of these games

≈ 86k–748k copies

≈ $528k–$2.7M 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: Hero Siege at ≈ 2.7M–4.3M copies, ≈ $5.8M–$15.7M 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 1k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, 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 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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