How much revenue did The Land of Pain make?

$90k–$242k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Land of Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did The Land of Pain sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 793 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $90k–$242k after Steam's cut $164k–$372k before Steam's cut; from 793 reviews (Mostly 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 Land of Pain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Land of Pain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–77k

best case 187k (The Sinking City Remastered)

Games like The Land of Pain

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–77k copies

≈ $4k–$687k after Steam's cut

from ~384 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Sinking City Remastered at ≈ 143k–232k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 55 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 239.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Third-Person Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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A House of Many Doors 2017	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $45k–$122k after Steam's cut $82k–$187k before Steam's cut	$10.99	436 reviews Very Positive	Story RichLovecraftian
The Shore 2021	Est. copies ≈ 50k–81k 5.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $163k–$439k after Steam's cut $297k–$676k before Steam's cut	$11.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	LovecraftianHorror
Subway Exorcist Girl 2025	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut	$1.99	331 reviews Very Positive	HorrorExploration
The Sinking City Remastered 2021	Est. copies ≈ 143k–232k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	6k reviews Mostly Positive	LovecraftianThird-Person Shooter
The Broken Ceiling 2024	Est. copies ≈ 471–766 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $387–$1k after Steam's cut $704–$2k before Steam's cut	$2.99	19 reviews Positive	HorrorLovecraftian
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DESOLATIUM: Prologue 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	122 reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationMystery