How much revenue did Look Inside make?

$163–$439 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Look Inside sell?

Q: How many copies did Look Inside sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $163–$439 after Steam's cut $297–$675 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Look Inside and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Look Inside's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 170k–226k

best case 2.1M (Persona 3 Reload)

Games like Look Inside

A typical game among these

≈ 170k–226k copies

≈ $339k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Persona 3 Reload at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $26.5M–$71.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (6 of 8) and Detective (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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