How much revenue did A Raving Lunatic make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Raving Lunatic sell?

Q: How many copies did A Raving Lunatic sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 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 A Raving Lunatic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Raving Lunatic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–349k

best case 640k (Minecraft Dungeons)

Games like A Raving Lunatic

A typical game among these

≈ 80k–349k copies

≈ $1.0M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Minecraft Dungeons at ≈ 487k–792k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 976 reviews in their first month; the range was 189 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Exploration (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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