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How big is Hanako: Honor & Blade?

Estimated owners
≈ 6k–10k
from 236 reviews (Mostly 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 Hanako: Honor & Blade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hanako: Honor & Blade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 846k–1.9M
best case 56.1M (Warframe)
Games like Hanako: Honor & Blade

The middle of these games

≈ 846k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.5M–$17.6M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 470k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Third Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Action + Third Person + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2026, and 2 of your 7 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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