How much revenue did Lifeslide make?

$29k–$78k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lifeslide sell?

Q: How many copies did Lifeslide sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 427 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$120k before Steam's cut; from 427 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 Lifeslide and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lifeslide's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–189k

best case 523k (Superflight)

Games like Lifeslide

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–189k copies

≈ $83k–$537k after Steam's cut

from ~939 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: Superflight at ≈ 399k–648k copies, ≈ $328k–$881k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Procedural Generation, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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