How much revenue did Lucah: Born of a Dream make?

$43k–$117k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lucah: Born of a Dream sell?

Q: How many copies did Lucah: Born of a Dream sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 519 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $43k–$117k after Steam's cut $79k–$179k before Steam's cut; from 519 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 Lucah: Born of a Dream and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lucah: Born of a Dream's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 305k–1.2M

best case 7.4M (Path of Exile 2)

Games like Lucah: Born of a Dream

A typical game among these

≈ 305k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.5M–$27.1M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Path of Exile 2 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $46.4M–$124.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 927 to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Souls-like (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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