How much revenue did The Land Beneath Us make?

$28k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Land Beneath Us sell?

Q: How many copies did The Land Beneath Us sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 270 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $28k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before Steam's cut; from 270 reviews (Very 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 The Land Beneath Us and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Land Beneath Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–13k

best case 20k (Rack and Slay)

Games like The Land Beneath Us

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–13k copies

≈ $11k–$34k after Steam's cut

from ~183 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Puzzle (3 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: Rack and Slay at ≈ 15k–25k copies, ≈ $25k–$67k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 364.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (3 of 8) and Rogue-lite (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Pool, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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Nova-111 2015	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before Steam's cut	$4.99	183 reviews Mostly Positive	SingleplayerSci-fi
Rack and Slay 2024	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut	$5.99	611 reviews Very Positive	Rogue-likePool
Metal as Phuk 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut	$4.99	251 reviews Very Positive	Story RichTurn-Based Combat
HordeCore: Training Ground 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	101 reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
Get Ogre It 2020	Est. copies ≈ 719–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$11.99	29 reviews Mostly Positive	Mystery DungeonTop-Down
The Chronicles of Quiver Dick 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut	$2.99	183 reviews Very Positive	HorrorAction Roguelike
Seer's Gambit 2024	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $54k–$146k after Steam's cut $99k–$225k before Steam's cut	$14.99	532 reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyRogue-lite
Cramped Room of Death 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut	$14.99	72 reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle