How much revenue did Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- make?

$944k–$2.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- sell?

Q: How many copies did Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- sell?

343k to 558k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 343k–558k; $944k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut; from 8k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–3.3M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–3.3M copies

≈ $6.3M–$22.1M after Steam's cut

from ~78k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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