How much revenue did The Lighting Ages make?

$108–$292 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Lighting Ages sell?

Q: How many copies did The Lighting Ages sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $108–$292 after Steam's cut $197–$449 before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122–570

best case 1k (Hidden World Top-Down 3D)

Games like The Lighting Ages

A typical game among these

≈ 122–570 copies

≈ $153–$20k after Steam's cut

from ~7 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hidden World Top-Down 3D at ≈ 818–1k copies, ≈ $45k–$121k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 11.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sports, priced around $200.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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