How much revenue did LEGO® The Hobbit™ make?

$3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LEGO® The Hobbit™ sell?

Q: How many copies did LEGO® The Hobbit™ sell?

598k to 972k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 598k–972k; $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.6M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 LEGO® The Hobbit™ and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including LEGO® The Hobbit™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.8M

best case 1.6M (LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga)

Games like LEGO® The Hobbit™

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies

≈ $12.3M–$23.4M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share LEGO (3 of 3) and Co-op (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with LEGO + Co-op, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
LEGO® Worlds 2017	Est. copies ≈ 539k–875k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$11.9M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	16k reviews Mostly Positive	LEGOOpen World
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.5M after Steam's cut $30.1M–$68.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga 2009	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LEGOLocal Co-Op