How much revenue did Seventh Lair make?

$23k–$62k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Seventh Lair sell?

Q: How many copies did Seventh Lair sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 420 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$95k before Steam's cut; from 420 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 Seventh Lair and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Seventh Lair's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 777k–2.3M

best case 4.6M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like Seventh Lair

A typical game among these

≈ 777k–2.3M copies

≈ $5.3M–$35.5M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

Best case: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (7 of 8) and JRPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Persona 3 Reload 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $26.5M–$71.2M after Steam's cut $48.2M–$109.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	65k reviews Very Positive	JRPGRPG
Tales of Berseria™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 651k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut $16.3M–$37.0M before Steam's cut	$49.99	19k reviews Very Positive	AnimeJRPG
Persona 4 Golden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	88k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGGreat Soundtrack
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Persona 5 Royal 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut $104.9M–$238.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	141k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPG Story Rich
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard 2023	Est. copies ≈ 345k–561k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	14k reviews Very Positive	SimulationDating Sim
Eternal Senia 2015	Est. copies ≈ 589k–957k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeFree to Play
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