How much revenue did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling make?

$49k–$131k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling sell?

Q: How many copies did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $49k–$131k after Steam's cut $89k–$201k 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 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 294k–2.2M

best case 7.2M (To the Moon)

Games like Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

A typical game among these

≈ 294k–2.2M copies

≈ $1.6M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: To the Moon at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2020, 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 79 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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