How much revenue did Lossless Scaling make?

$2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lossless Scaling sell?

Q: How many copies did Lossless Scaling sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.5M before Steam's cut; from 39k 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 Lossless Scaling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lossless Scaling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 171k–1.8M

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like Lossless Scaling

A typical game among these

≈ 171k–1.8M copies

≈ $519k–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Software (8 of 8) and Utilities (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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).

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