How much revenue did Loverowind make?

$655–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Loverowind sell?

Q: How many copies did Loverowind sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $655–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 97 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 Loverowind and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Loverowind's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 975k–2.8M

best case 5.5M (Firewatch)

Games like Loverowind

A typical game among these

≈ 975k–2.8M copies

≈ $6.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Firewatch at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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