How much revenue did Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu sell?

Q: How many copies did Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 387 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$218k before Steam's cut; from 387 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 Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 612k–819k

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu

A typical game among these

≈ 612k–819k copies

≈ $3.3M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Software (3 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M 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 Software (3 of 8) and Utilities (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mini Golf + Sports, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 55x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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