How much revenue did Lorena and the Land of Ruins make?

$10k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lorena and the Land of Ruins sell?

Q: How many copies did Lorena and the Land of Ruins sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 102 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before Steam's cut; from 102 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 Lorena and the Land of Ruins and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lorena and the Land of Ruins's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–78k

best case 591k (Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart)

Games like Lorena and the Land of Ruins

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–78k copies

≈ $30k–$537k after Steam's cut

from ~487 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart at ≈ 451k–732k copies, ≈ $7.4M–$20.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 80 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 5k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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