How much revenue did Look Inside make?

$122–$330 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?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $122–$330 after Steam's cut $222–$507 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 169k–226k

best case 2.0M (Persona 3 Reload)

Games like Look Inside

The middle of these games

≈ 169k–226k copies

≈ $336k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Persona 3 Reload at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $25.6M–$68.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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