How much revenue did Lies of P make?

$33.6M–$90.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lies of P sell?

Q: How many copies did Lies of P sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 82k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; $33.6M–$90.4M after Steam's cut $61.1M–$139.1M before the cut; from 82k reviews (Very 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 Lies of P out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lies of P's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.7M–7.3M

best case 39.4M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Lies of P

The middle of these games

≈ 6.7M–7.3M copies

≈ $77.7M–$90.2M after Steam's cut

from ~183k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.8M copies, ≈ $495.5M–$1332.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 102k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Third Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 of your 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 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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