How much revenue did LIRE make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LIRE sell?

Q: How many copies did LIRE sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 27 reviews (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 LIRE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LIRE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–426k

best case 587k (Tales of the Black Forest)

Games like LIRE

A typical game among these

≈ 142k–426k copies

≈ $794k–$965k after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Tales of the Black Forest at ≈ 447k–726k copies, ≈ $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RPGMaker (7 of 8) and Female Protagonist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Horror, priced around $4.
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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