How much revenue did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition make?

$760k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition sell?

184k to 300k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 184k–300k; $760k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–659k

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 58k–659k copies

≈ $200k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 182 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 143 to 463.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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