How much revenue did Lucifer Within Us make?

$105k–$282k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lucifer Within Us sell?

Q: How many copies did Lucifer Within Us sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 769 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $105k–$282k after Steam's cut $191k–$434k before Steam's cut; from 769 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 Lucifer Within Us and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lucifer Within Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–186k

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Lucifer Within Us

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–186k copies

≈ $431k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut. 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 206 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Investigation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Co-op + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M 368x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
The Thaumaturge 2024	Est. copies ≈ 149k–241k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	6k reviews Very Positive	RPGSingleplayer
HellSign 2021	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $312k–$838k after Steam's cut $566k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	SupernaturalHorror
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. 2023	Est. copies ≈ 24k–40k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $67k–$181k after Steam's cut $122k–$278k before Steam's cut	$9.99	987 reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorSupernatural
Ghost Exorcism INC. 2021	Est. copies ≈ 135k–219k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $445k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $809k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$11.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op
Demonologist 2023	Est. copies ≈ 602k–978k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	24k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 2021	Est. copies ≈ 50k–82k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $207k–$558k after Steam's cut $377k–$858k before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsDetective
Bad Dream: Fever 2018	Est. copies ≈ 41k–66k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	IndieAdventure