How much revenue did Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy sell?

Q: How many copies did Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before the cut; from 73 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 Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 567k–4.9M

best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy

The middle of these games

≈ 567k–4.9M copies

≈ $3.6M–$55.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.6M copies, ≈ $42.7M–$114.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Superhero (6 of 8) and Match 3 (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2022, 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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