How much revenue did The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel make?

$2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel sell?

Q: How many copies did The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel sell?

203k to 330k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 203k–330k; $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.2M before the cut; from 6k 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 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–5.7M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

The middle of these games

≈ 4.3M–5.7M copies

≈ $83.9M–$105.7M after Steam's cut

from ~139k reviews

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

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 6) and JRPG (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Persona 5 Royal 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $56.7M–$152.4M after Steam's cut $103.0M–$234.4M before the cut	$59.99	139k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPG Story Rich
Persona 4 Golden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.9M–$31.9M after Steam's cut $21.6M–$49.1M before the cut	$19.99	87k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGGreat Soundtrack
Yakuza 0 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichAction
NieR:Automata™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut $105.3M–$239.5M before the cut	$39.99	153k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich
MONSTER HUNTER RISE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.3M–$92.3M after Steam's cut $62.4M–$142.0M before the cut	$39.99	126k reviews Very Positive	ActionHunting