How much revenue did Land Above Sea Below make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Land Above Sea Below sell?

Q: How many copies did Land Above Sea Below sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 151 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before Steam's cut; from 151 reviews (Mostly 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 Land Above Sea Below and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Land Above Sea Below's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 611k–860k

best case 965k (Dorfromantik)

Games like Land Above Sea Below

A typical game among these

≈ 611k–860k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Dorfromantik at ≈ 735k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Logic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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LYNE 2014	Est. copies ≈ 462k–750k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $380k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $690k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$2.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleLogic
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