How much revenue did Who's Lila? make?

$313k–$843k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Who's Lila? sell?

Q: How many copies did Who's Lila? sell?

95k to 154k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 95k–154k; $313k–$843k after Steam's cut $570k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

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 Who's Lila? and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Who's Lila?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234k–782k

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like Who's Lila?

A typical game among these

≈ 234k–782k copies

≈ $744k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 448 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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