How much revenue did The Last City make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last City sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last City sell?

2k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 62 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Last City and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last City's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–109k

best case 479k (Kingdom Heroes 8)

Games like The Last City

A typical game among these

≈ 54k–109k copies

≈ $436k–$871k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Kingdom Heroes 8 at ≈ 365k–593k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 477 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Strategy RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Tactical RPG, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Tactical RPG + War + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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