How much revenue did Million to One Hero make?

Million to One Hero is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Million to One Hero sell?

Q: How many copies did Million to One Hero sell?

950 to 2k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 950–2k; from 33 reviews (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 Million to One Hero out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Million to One Hero's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 874k–1.5M

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Million to One Hero

The middle of these games

≈ 874k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.8M–$9.1M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 14k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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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