How much revenue did Lizard Slayer make?

$101–$272 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lizard Slayer sell?

Q: How many copies did Lizard Slayer sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $101–$272 after Steam's cut $184–$419 before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–7.1M

best case 13.5M (Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition)

Games like Lizard Slayer

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–7.1M copies

≈ $22.2M–$109.8M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition at ≈ 10.3M–16.7M copies, ≈ $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (8 of 8) and Third Person (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Ninja, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $71.3M–$191.8M after Steam's cut $129.7M–$295.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	133k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
LIZARDS MUST DIE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 656k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $719k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$3.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HistoricalSouls-like
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CODE VEIN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAnime
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.3M–16.7M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	357k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
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