How much revenue did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ make?

$5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ sell?

Q: How many copies did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.3M before Steam's cut; from 16k 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 LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 680k–1.7M

best case 1.6M (LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga)

Games like LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

A typical game among these

≈ 680k–1.7M copies

≈ $5.3M–$17.3M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (8 of 8) and LEGO (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LEGO + Co-op, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2022, and none of them 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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LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame 2008	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.7M–$15.4M after Steam's cut $10.4M–$23.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	17k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAction
LEGO® City Undercover 2017	Est. copies ≈ 397k–645k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	LEGOOpen World
LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.0M–$29.5M after Steam's cut $19.9M–$45.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LEGOOpen World
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga 2009	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LEGOLocal Co-Op
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.5M after Steam's cut $30.1M–$68.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 354k–575k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	LEGOMultiplayer
LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™ 2011	Est. copies ≈ 589k–958k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAction
LEGO® Jurassic World 2015	Est. copies ≈ 559k–908k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	LEGODinosaurs