How much revenue did Heaven's Vault make?

$492k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Heaven's Vault sell?

Q: How many copies did Heaven's Vault sell?

72k to 116k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–116k; $492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $894k–$2.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 Heaven's Vault out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Heaven's Vault's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 416k–950k

best case 1.1M (SIGNALIS)

Games like Heaven's Vault

The middle of these games

≈ 416k–950k copies

≈ $2.6M–$12.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SIGNALIS at ≈ 847k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 528 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (8 of 8) and Mystery (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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