How much revenue did The Lone Blade make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Lone Blade sell?

Q: How many copies did The Lone Blade sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (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 The Lone Blade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Lone Blade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–164k

best case 233k (Hot Lava)

Games like The Lone Blade

A typical game among these

≈ 117k–164k copies

≈ $783k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Hot Lava at ≈ 178k–289k copies, ≈ $977k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 453 reviews in their first month; the range was 155 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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Only Climb: Better Together 2023	Est. copies ≈ 86k–139k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $118k–$316k after Steam's cut $214k–$487k before Steam's cut	$4.99	3k reviews Mixed	Precision Platformer3D Platformer
I Am Fish 2021	Est. copies ≈ 99k–161k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $544k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $989k–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureSimulation
Lunistice 2022	Est. copies ≈ 48k–78k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $120k–$274k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	3D PlatformerFemale Protagonist
Blue Fire 2021	Est. copies ≈ 77k–126k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $425k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $772k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaExploration
Toree 3D 2021	Est. copies ≈ 42k–68k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerPlatformer
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