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 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 Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–354k

best case 428k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind

A typical game among these

≈ 79k–354k copies

≈ $535k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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