How much revenue did Lunistice make?

$66k–$178k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lunistice sell?

Q: How many copies did Lunistice sell?

48k to 78k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 48k–78k; $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $120k–$274k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Lunistice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lunistice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–10.7M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Lunistice

A typical game among these

≈ 3.1M–10.7M copies

≈ $27.3M–$94.0M after Steam's cut

from ~122k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Split Fiction 2025	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut $78.8M–$179.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opSplit Screen
Mirror's Edge™ 2009	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureParkour
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.7M–$198.3M after Steam's cut $134.1M–$305.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	270k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Sonic Adventure 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	29k reviews Very Positive	ActionGreat Soundtrack
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
A Hat in Time 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut $27.6M–$62.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Cute3D Platformer