How much revenue did laf the game make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did laf the game sell?

Q: How many copies did laf the game sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 laf the game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including laf the game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–162k

best case 431k (Internet Cafe Simulator 2)

Games like laf the game

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–162k copies

≈ $84k–$1.2M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Life Sim (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: Internet Cafe Simulator 2 at ≈ 328k–533k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 143 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 1 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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