How much revenue did Liminal make?

Liminal is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Liminal sell?

Q: How many copies did Liminal sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; from 39 reviews (Mostly 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 Liminal and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Liminal's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–27k

best case 279k (Manifold Garden)

Games like Liminal

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–27k copies

≈ $19k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~412 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Manifold Garden at ≈ 213k–346k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 50 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 680.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Experimental (8 of 8) and Psychedelic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Surreal, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
HyperRogue 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $67k–$179k after Steam's cut $121k–$276k before Steam's cut	$9.99	497 reviews Very Positive	Traditional RoguelikePsychedelic
100 hidden eternals 2020	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut	$0.99	689 reviews Very Positive	CasualHidden Object
Disillusion 2021	Est. copies ≈ 25k–40k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before Steam's cut	$2.99	997 reviews Very Positive	AdventureRPG
Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 213k–346k 21x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
Californium 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before Steam's cut	$6.99	412 reviews Mostly Positive	PsychedelicSci-fi
Ayahuasca 2020	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$146k before Steam's cut	$12.99	399 reviews Very Positive	CasualExploration
stikir 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut	$2.99	307 reviews Very Positive	SurrealGame Development
Vidiot Game 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	225 reviews Very Positive	CasualExperimental