How much revenue did Lightracer: For Judge make?

$34k–$92k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lightracer: For Judge sell?

Q: How many copies did Lightracer: For Judge sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 502 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut; from 502 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 Lightracer: For Judge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lightracer: For Judge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293k–416k

best case 668k (Her Story)

Games like Lightracer: For Judge

A typical game among these

≈ 293k–416k copies

≈ $1.8M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 Life Sim (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: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 523 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 3 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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