How much revenue did LOVE make?

$55k–$148k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LOVE sell?

Q: How many copies did LOVE sell?

67k to 109k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–109k; $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left LOVE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LOVE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–6.3M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like LOVE

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–6.3M copies

≈ $17.5M–$42.1M after Steam's cut

from ~76k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (4 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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Pizza Tower 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$41.0M before the cut	$19.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great Soundtrack2D Platformer
Starbound 2016	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.8M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.5M before the cut	$14.99	123k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.2M–159.6M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut $490.5M–$1115.8M before the cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Skul: The Hero Slayer 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.5M before the cut	$19.99	58k reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.2M–$102.8M after Steam's cut $69.5M–$158.2M before the cut	$24.99	183k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
Katana ZERO 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.4M before the cut	$14.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsAction
Broforce 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.7M before the cut	$14.99	61k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AmericaAction
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.6M–$66.0M after Steam's cut $44.7M–$101.6M before the cut	$19.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult