How much revenue did Lost In The Shadows make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost In The Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost In The Shadows sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (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 Lost In The Shadows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost In The Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 318k–1.6M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Lost In The Shadows

A typical game among these

≈ 318k–1.6M copies

≈ $635k–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Economy (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: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 795 to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 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 36 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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TCG Card Shop Simulator 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	51k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Management
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 503k–817k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $275k–$740k after Steam's cut $500k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CuteRelaxing
Cookie Clicker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	93k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ClickerIdler
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