How much revenue did Lost Eidolons make?

$575k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Eidolons sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Eidolons sell?

60k to 97k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 60k–97k; $575k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Lost Eidolons and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Eidolons's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700k–4.2M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Lost Eidolons

A typical game among these

≈ 700k–4.2M copies

≈ $6.2M–$30.8M after Steam's cut

from ~29k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (2 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.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (2 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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 52 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 23x 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
Battle Brothers 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.3M–$22.2M after Steam's cut $15.0M–$34.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	29k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRPG
Paw Patrol: On A Roll! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $217k–$495k before Steam's cut	$29.99	477 reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyPlatformer
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
XCOM® 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.6M–$103.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	110k reviews Very Positive	IsometricTurn-Based Combat
Marauders 2022	Est. copies ≈ 532k–864k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$11.8M after Steam's cut $8.0M–$18.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	21k reviews Mixed	Early AccessExtraction Shooter
Garfield Kart - Furious Racing 2019	Est. copies ≈ 435k–707k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicRacing
Bomber Crew 2017	Est. copies ≈ 535k–869k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut	$15.99	16k reviews Very Positive	World War IISimulation