How much revenue did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure make?

$324k–$871k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $324k–$871k after Steam's cut $589k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–192k

best case 580k (Shadows of Doubt)

Games like Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 109k–192k copies

≈ $666k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Shadows of Doubt at ≈ 442k–719k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Point & Click (6 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Immersive Sim, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Immersive Sim + Sandbox + Voxel; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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