How much revenue did Lifeless Planet Premier Edition make?

$559k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lifeless Planet Premier Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Lifeless Planet Premier Edition sell?

204k to 331k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 204k–331k; $559k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Lifeless Planet Premier Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lifeless Planet Premier Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 128k–341k

best case 437k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like Lifeless Planet Premier Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 128k–341k copies

≈ $983k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 333k–541k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 900 reviews in their first month; the range was 212 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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