How much revenue did Laika make?

$128–$345 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Laika sell?

Q: How many copies did Laika sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before the cut; from 19 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Laika out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Laika's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 177k–413k

best case 518k (Goat Simulator 3)

Games like Laika

The middle of these games

≈ 177k–413k copies

≈ $1.0M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Goat Simulator 3 at ≈ 394k–641k copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 763 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Physics, priced around $30.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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