How much revenue did Luna's Fishing Garden make?

$122k–$327k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Luna's Fishing Garden sell?

Q: How many copies did Luna's Fishing Garden sell?

55k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–90k; $122k–$327k after Steam's cut $221k–$504k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Luna's Fishing Garden and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Luna's Fishing Garden's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–330k

best case 2.3M (WEBFISHING)

Games like Luna's Fishing Garden

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–330k copies

≈ $3k–$1.4M 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.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: WEBFISHING at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Collectathon (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Character Customization, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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