How much revenue did LunaQuest make?

$110–$291 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LunaQuest sell?

Q: How many copies did LunaQuest sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $110–$291 after Steam's cut $200–$448 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 LunaQuest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LunaQuest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 311k–353k

best case 1.4M (Metaphor: ReFantazio)

Games like LunaQuest

A typical game among these

≈ 311k–353k copies

≈ $2.9M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based Combat (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: Metaphor: ReFantazio at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $20.7M–$55.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Combat (4 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $57. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Adventure + Turn-Based Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
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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