How many copies did Long Live Santa! sell?

107k to 174k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Long Live Santa! make?

Long Live Santa! is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Long Live Santa!?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 107k–174k; from 3k 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 Long Live Santa! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Long Live Santa!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 173k–12.6M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Long Live Santa!

A typical game among these

≈ 173k–12.6M copies

≈ $59k–$14.1M after Steam's cut

from ~189k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shooter (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (3 of 8) and Battle Royale (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, and none of them 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 61 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
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	303k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleMultiplayer
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	235k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut $51.9M–$118.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Brawlhalla 2017	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	413k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Animal Revolt Battle Simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 170k–277k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $703k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndieSandbox
HUNTERS FOR YOUR BRAIN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$4.99	31 reviews Mixed	Spectacle fighterTop-Down Shooter
NEO AQUARIUM - The King of Crustaceans - 2015	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $42k–$114k after Steam's cut $77k–$175k before Steam's cut	$8.99	351 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction