How much revenue did Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind make?

$179–$479 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind sell?

Q: How many copies did Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind 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; $179–$479 after Steam's cut $325–$737 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–354k

best case 420k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–354k copies

≈ $534k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 320k–520k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 1k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 70 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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