How much revenue did Lunacid make?

$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lunacid sell?

Q: How many copies did Lunacid sell?

287k to 467k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 287k–467k; $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Lunacid and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lunacid's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–131k

best case 192k (Mortal Sin)

Games like Lunacid

A typical game among these

≈ 42k–131k copies

≈ $353k–$641k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mortal Sin at ≈ 146k–237k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 546 reviews in their first month; the range was 297 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and First-Person (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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