How much revenue did Lighthouse Keeper make?

$39k–$105k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lighthouse Keeper sell?

Q: How many copies did Lighthouse Keeper sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 477 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$161k before Steam's cut; from 477 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 Lighthouse Keeper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lighthouse Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–12.5M

best case 25.5M (Unturned)

Games like Lighthouse Keeper

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–12.5M copies

≈ $132k–$25.0M after Steam's cut

from ~27k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Sandbox (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Unturned at ≈ 19.4M–31.6M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 117 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (4 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2026, and 2 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 79 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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Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
Unturned 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.6M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	565k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlaySurvival
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
The Imagined Leviathan: Prologue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	162 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureStory Rich
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft 2026	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $72k–$193k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before Steam's cut	$14.99	701 reviews Very Positive	EducationProgramming
Controlled Death 2024	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	5 reviews 5 user reviews	ActionEarly Access
vrkshop 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before Steam's cut	$19.99	170 reviews Very Positive	VRRealistic
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut $24.7M–$56.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	156k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies