How much revenue did The Unlife of Gorlak make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Unlife of Gorlak sell?

Q: How many copies did The Unlife of Gorlak sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 55 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 Unlife of Gorlak and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Unlife of Gorlak's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 197k–665k

best case 1.5M (Dragon Age™: The Veilguard)

Games like The Unlife of Gorlak

A typical game among these

≈ 197k–665k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Dragon Age™: The Veilguard at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 448 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LGBTQ+ + Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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