How much revenue did Lost Surreal Hell make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Surreal Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Surreal Hell sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $296–$674 before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 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 Lost Surreal Hell and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Surreal Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–214k

best case 313k (INDIKA)

Games like Lost Surreal Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 88k–214k copies

≈ $424k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: INDIKA at ≈ 238k–387k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 836 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Dark (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal + Puzzle, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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