How much revenue did LIZARDS MUST DIE make?

$719k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE sell?

Q: How many copies did LIZARDS MUST DIE sell?

656k to 1.1M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 656k–1.1M; $719k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut; from 26k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 LIZARDS MUST DIE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LIZARDS MUST DIE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–280k

best case 1.8M (Nioh: Complete Edition)

Games like LIZARDS MUST DIE

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–280k copies

≈ $626–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~222 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (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: Nioh: Complete Edition at ≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 28 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 15k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (4 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Hack and Slash, priced around $50.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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