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RPG-focused indie game from Trese Brothers, with the developer also listed as publisher. Heroes of Steel RPG launched in 2014 and has 221 Steam reviews at 77% positive, a mostly positive signal. Its $9.99 launch price places it in the budget indie RPG range.
Overview
Heroes of Steel RPG is a 2014 Indie game developed by Trese Brothers and published by Trese Brothers. On Steam it has gathered 222 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Trese Brothers with publisher Trese Brothers is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 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, Heroes of Steel RPG can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
222
Positive
78%
Steam appid
291190
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.010K to 23K
units (median: 17K)
≈ $57K to $133K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Heroes of Steel RPG at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 222 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $95K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heroes of Steel RPG sold?
- indielist estimates Heroes of Steel RPG has sold between 9,990 and 23,310 units (median 16,650), derived from its 222 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heroes of Steel RPG?
- Heroes of Steel RPG was developed by Trese Brothers and published by Trese Brothers.
- Who published Heroes of Steel RPG?
- Heroes of Steel RPG was published by Trese Brothers, developed by Trese Brothers. See Trese Brothers's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Heroes of Steel RPG released?
- Heroes of Steel RPG was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Heroes of Steel RPG have on Steam?
- Heroes of Steel RPG has 222 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Heroes of Steel RPG worth playing?
- Steam players rate Heroes of Steel RPG 78% positive across 222 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Heroes of Steel RPG can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Trese Brothers's other releases and Trese Brothers's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heroes of Steel RPG 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 Heroes of Steel RPG page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.
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