How much revenue did Love Shore make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love Shore sell?

Q: How many copies did Love Shore sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 74 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–108k

best case 97k (Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure)

Games like Love Shore

A typical game among these

≈ 88k–108k copies

≈ $416k–$635k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure at ≈ 74k–120k copies, ≈ $324k–$871k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 321 reviews in their first month; the range was 127 to 398.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cyberpunk (6 of 8) and Noir (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Noir, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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