How much revenue did The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty make?

$4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty sell?

1.5M to 2.4M copies, based on its 60k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.5M–2.4M; $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut; from 60k reviews (Very 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 The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 102k–237k

best case 388k (Suzerain)

Games like The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

A typical game among these

≈ 102k–237k copies

≈ $385k–$2.1M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Suzerain at ≈ 296k–481k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.4M 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 855 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 3 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 61 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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Suzerain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 296k–481k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelChoose Your Own Adventure
Aviary Attorney 2015	Est. copies ≈ 111k–181k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $459k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $834k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelAdventure
Fate/stay night REMASTERED 2024	Est. copies ≈ 122k–199k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAnime
Fate/Samurai Remnant 2023	Est. copies ≈ 175k–284k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	7k reviews Very Positive	JRPGRPG
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School Days 2026	Est. copies ≈ 198k–321k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $815k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessRPG
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