How much revenue did Lord Of Island make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lord Of Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Lord Of Island sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Lord Of Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lord Of Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–62k

best case 568k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like Lord Of Island

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–62k copies

≈ $107k–$149k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 433k–704k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 285 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 109 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + RTS, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry RTS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 38 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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