How much revenue did Loot Box Quest make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Loot Box Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Loot Box Quest sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 484 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 484 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 Loot Box Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Loot Box Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–236k

best case 517k (DLC Quest)

Games like Loot Box Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 86k–236k copies

≈ $33k–$190k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DLC Quest at ≈ 394k–640k copies, ≈ $324k–$870k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 660.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Satire (6 of 8) and Dark Comedy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Satire, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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