How much revenue did Lizard Quest! make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lizard Quest! sell?

Q: How many copies did Lizard Quest! sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 31 reviews (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 Lizard Quest! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lizard Quest!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–263k

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Lizard Quest!

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–263k copies

≈ $58k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 224 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Collectathon (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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