How much revenue did House of Lizards make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did House of Lizards sell?

Q: How many copies did House of Lizards sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 516 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 516 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 House of Lizards and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including House of Lizards's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 191k–955k

best case 7.8M (The Isle)

Games like House of Lizards

A typical game among these

≈ 191k–955k copies

≈ $40k–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Isle at ≈ 5.9M–9.6M copies, ≈ $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 76 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Dinosaurs (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.6M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut $59.3M–$134.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	122k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival
Beasts of Bermuda 2018	Est. copies ≈ 297k–482k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Mixed	DinosaursSimulation
Survive or Thrive 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$1.99	240 reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterMultiple Endings
Dinosaur Hunt 2015	Est. copies ≈ 192k–312k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before Steam's cut	$0.99	4k reviews Mixed	DinosaursAction
WORLD OF ART JIGSAW PUZZLES 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut	$10.99	158 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
My Singing Monsters 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 7.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	50k reviews Very Positive	Creature CollectorSimulation
theHunter: Primal 2015	Est. copies ≈ 198k–322k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	DinosaursSurvival
LEGO® Jurassic World 2015	Est. copies ≈ 559k–908k 1.7x vs typical 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