How much revenue did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition make?

$587k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition sell?

142k to 231k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 142k–231k; $587k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 233k–380k

best case 437k (EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5)

Games like Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition

A typical game among these

≈ 233k–380k copies

≈ $3.4M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 at ≈ 333k–540k copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Co-op, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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 79 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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Vanquish 2017	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ActionThird-Person Shooter
War Robots: Frontiers 2025	Est. copies ≈ 123k–199k SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayThird-Person Shooter
DAEMON X MACHINA 2020	Est. copies ≈ 170k–277k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut	$49.99	7k reviews Very Positive	MechsAction
Lost Planet® 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 194k–315k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	ActionCo-op
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 2019	Est. copies ≈ 333k–540k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.8M after Steam's cut $10.0M–$22.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	12k reviews Very Positive	ActionOnline Co-Op
LOST PLANET® 3 2013	Est. copies ≈ 248k–402k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Mixed	ActionThird-Person Shooter
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 439k–714k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	ActionThird-Person Shooter
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 2024	Est. copies ≈ 180k–293k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	7k reviews Mixed	ActionThird-Person Shooter