How much revenue did Heretical make?

$105k–$283k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heretical sell?

Q: How many copies did Heretical sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $105k–$283k after Steam's cut $192k–$436k before the cut; from 1k 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 Heretical out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heretical's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–8.0M

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Heretical

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–8.0M copies

≈ $9.2M–$77.1M after Steam's cut

from ~111k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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