How much revenue did Double Kick Heroes make?

$37k–$101k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Double Kick Heroes sell?

Q: How many copies did Double Kick Heroes sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 275 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $37k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$155k before the cut; from 275 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 Double Kick Heroes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Double Kick Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–153k

best case 824k (Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY)

Games like Double Kick Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–153k copies

≈ $55k–$207k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (2 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: Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY at ≈ 628k–1.0M copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 343 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 183 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (2 of 8) and Bullet Hell (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Education, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, 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 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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