How much revenue did Shop Heroes make?

Shop Heroes is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Shop Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did Shop Heroes sell?

153k to 248k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 153k–248k; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.1M–34.3M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Shop Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 8.1M–34.3M copies

≈ $70.4M–$239.2M after Steam's cut

from ~346k 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: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 168k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 122k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 3 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 52 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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