How much revenue did Laika: Aged Through Blood make?

$919k–$2.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Laika: Aged Through Blood sell?

Q: How many copies did Laika: Aged Through Blood sell?

167k to 272k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 167k–272k; $919k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Laika: Aged Through Blood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Laika: Aged Through Blood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–19k

best case 31k (ITORAH)

Games like Laika: Aged Through Blood

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–19k copies

≈ $37k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~360 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: ITORAH at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $131k–$352k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 98 reviews in their first month; the range was 44 to 193.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Metroidvania (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Metroidvania, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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