How much revenue did Spirit City: Lofi Sessions make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirit City: Lofi Sessions sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirit City: Lofi Sessions sell?

418k to 679k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 418k–679k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut; from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Spirit City: Lofi Sessions and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirit City: Lofi Sessions's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–178k

best case 362k (Virtual Cottage)

Games like Spirit City: Lofi Sessions

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–178k copies

≈ $232k–$436k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Virtual Cottage at ≈ 275k–448k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 389 reviews in their first month; the range was 42 to 930.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Utilities (7 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Life Sim.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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