How much revenue did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. make?

$204–$548 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. sell?

Q: How many copies did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $204–$548 after Steam's cut $371–$843 before Steam's cut; from 10 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 It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 439–3k

best case 5k (Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2)

Games like It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG.

A typical game among these

≈ 439–3k copies

≈ $2k–$22k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

None of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $22k–$59k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 84.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (6 of 7) and Hack and Slash (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Lovecraftian, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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