How much revenue did The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel sell?

Q: How many copies did The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 60 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 60 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 The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–7.1M

best case 32.0M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like The Lazy Demon Lord and the Four Stones of Dispel

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–7.1M copies

≈ $23.0M–$143.2M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.4M–39.6M copies, ≈ $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 31k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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
Gujian3(古剑奇谭三) 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	49k reviews Very Positive	RPGStory Rich
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Assassin's Creed® Origins 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $73.3M–$197.2M after Steam's cut $133.3M–$303.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	129k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAssassin
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
Monster Hunter Wilds 2025	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.4M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $90.5M–$243.4M after Steam's cut $164.6M–$374.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	332k reviews Mixed	HuntingAction
嗜血印 Bloody Spell 2022	Est. copies ≈ 976k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$18.0M after Steam's cut $12.2M–$27.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	NuditySexual Content
Tales of ARISE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut $22.8M–$51.9M before Steam's cut	$49.99	37k reviews Very Positive	AnimeJRPG
Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $27.7M–$74.3M after Steam's cut $50.3M–$114.4M before Steam's cut	$59.99	68k reviews Very Positive	Story RichRPG