How much revenue did Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers sell?

Q: How many copies did Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 109 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 109 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 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–16k

best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)

Games like Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–16k copies

≈ $9k–$97k after Steam's cut

from ~262 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M 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 64 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 242.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Lovecraftian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Visual Novel, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Crime + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 43 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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