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How many copies did Forest Heroes sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$83k before the cut
from 295 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Forest Heroes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–13k
best case 117k (Overdungeon)
Games like Forest Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–13k copies

≈ $7k–$112k after Steam's cut

from ~93 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Overdungeon at ≈ 89k–145k copies, ≈ $369k–$992k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 38 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 747.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Card Battler (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Battler, priced around $15.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 36 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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