How much revenue did LemWars make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LemWars sell?

Q: How many copies did LemWars sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $74–$168 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 LemWars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LemWars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 128k–326k

best case 615k (Age of History 3)

Games like LemWars

A typical game among these

≈ 128k–326k copies

≈ $707k–$3.0M 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: Age of History 3 at ≈ 468k–761k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (6 of 8) and World War I (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Grand Strategy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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