How much revenue did The Last Worker make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last Worker sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last Worker sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 75 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 The Last Worker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last Worker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.8M

best case 3.8M (The Stanley Parable)

Games like The Last Worker

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.8M copies

≈ $8.1M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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 First-Person (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: The Stanley Parable at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 165 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Walking Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Narration, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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 79 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 Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe 2022	Est. copies ≈ 898k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	36k reviews Very Positive	Multiple EndingsComedy
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