How much revenue did LEGO® Bricktales make?

$428k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LEGO® Bricktales sell?

Q: How many copies did LEGO® Bricktales sell?

52k to 84k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–84k; $428k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $778k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 LEGO® Bricktales and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LEGO® Bricktales's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–54k

best case 627k (A Little to the Left)

Games like LEGO® Bricktales

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–54k copies

≈ $13k–$311k 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M 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 223 reviews in their first month; the range was 56 to 789.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Cozy, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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