How much revenue did Leningrad make?

$162–$436 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Leningrad sell?

Q: How many copies did Leningrad sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $162–$436 after Steam's cut $295–$670 before Steam's cut; from 24 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–327k

best case 781k (Sunkenland)

Games like Leningrad

A typical game among these

≈ 32k–327k copies

≈ $174k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Underwater (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: Sunkenland at ≈ 595k–967k copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 382 reviews in their first month; the range was 30 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Underwater (4 of 8) and Base-Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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