How much revenue did Lifeless Moon make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lifeless Moon sell?

Q: How many copies did Lifeless Moon sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 321 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $52k–$118k before the cut; from 321 reviews (Mostly 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 Lifeless Moon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lifeless Moon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 560k–1.3M

best case 2.2M (DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT)

Games like Lifeless Moon

The middle of these games

≈ 560k–1.3M copies

≈ $7.5M–$12.5M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 723 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Third-Person Shooter + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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 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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