How much revenue did Lightyear Frontier make?

$801k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lightyear Frontier sell?

Q: How many copies did Lightyear Frontier sell?

117k to 189k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 117k–189k; $801k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut; from 5k 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 Lightyear Frontier out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lightyear Frontier's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 921k–1.6M

best case 56.6M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Lightyear Frontier

The middle of these games

≈ 921k–1.6M copies

≈ $10.6M–$14.2M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.2M–70.1M copies, ≈ $177.9M–$478.3M 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 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (6 of 8) and Crafting (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Agriculture + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 1 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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