How much revenue did Lovecraft's Untold Stories make?

$114k–$307k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lovecraft's Untold Stories sell?

Q: How many copies did Lovecraft's Untold Stories sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 962 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $114k–$307k after Steam's cut $208k–$472k before Steam's cut; from 962 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 Lovecraft's Untold Stories and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lovecraft's Untold Stories's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.4M

best case 2.2M (Remnant: From the Ashes)

Games like Lovecraft's Untold Stories

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.4M copies

≈ $8.2M–$25.6M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (4 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: Remnant: From the Ashes at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $18.2M–$49.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Survival Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Co-op, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 79 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
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
CARRION 2020	Est. copies ≈ 895k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistPixel Graphics
Remnant: From the Ashes 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $18.2M–$49.1M after Steam's cut $33.2M–$75.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	58k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAction
Darkwood 2017	Est. copies ≈ 861k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut $8.6M–$19.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
ICEY 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.5M before Steam's cut	$10.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
Quake 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSClassic
SIGNALIS 2022	Est. copies ≈ 862k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut $8.6M–$19.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Psychological Horror