How many copies has Hero Tale sold?

indielist estimates Hero Tale has sold between 3,789 and 8,841 units (median 6,315), derived from its 421 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Hero Tale?

Hero Tale was published by Weird Johnny Studio, developed by Weird Johnny Studio. See Weird Johnny Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Hero Tale released?

Hero Tale was released in 2024.

How many reviews does Hero Tale have on Steam?

Hero Tale has 421 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.

Is Hero Tale worth playing?

Steam players rate Hero Tale 69% positive across 421 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Hero Tale

Mar 28, 2024 Casual $4.99

Developer Weird Johnny Studio Publisher Weird Johnny Studio

Profile updated Jul 2026

Casual indie game Hero Tale targets players looking for a low-cost genre entry rather than a tag-defined niche. It launched in 2024 at $4.99, has 419 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive / Mixed, and is developed and published by weird-johnny-studio.

Hero Tale is a 2024 Casual game developed by Weird Johnny Studio and published by Weird Johnny Studio. On Steam it has gathered 421 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Weird Johnny Studio with publisher Weird Johnny Studio is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4,000 to 9,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hero Tale can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

421

Positive

69%

Steam appid

2513240

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

4K to 9K

units (median: 6K)

≈ $11K to $25K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

4K median 9K

+ How is this calculated?

421 reviews × NB(15) = 6,315 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$5	-20
positive_69%	-10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	15

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hero Tale at roughly 4,000 to 9,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 421 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $18K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

5 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-04 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-08-04.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

CasualIndieRPGFree To Play

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hero Tale sold?: indielist estimates Hero Tale has sold between 3,789 and 8,841 units (median 6,315), derived from its 421 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hero Tale?: Hero Tale was developed by Weird Johnny Studio and published by Weird Johnny Studio.
Who published Hero Tale?: Hero Tale was published by Weird Johnny Studio, developed by Weird Johnny Studio. See Weird Johnny Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hero Tale released?: Hero Tale was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Hero Tale have on Steam?: Hero Tale has 421 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
Is Hero Tale worth playing?: Steam players rate Hero Tale 69% positive across 421 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Hero Tale can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Weird Johnny Studio's other releases and Weird Johnny Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hero Tale sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hero Tale page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.