How much revenue did The Red Lantern make?

$381k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Red Lantern sell?

Q: How many copies did The Red Lantern sell?

55k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–90k; $381k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $693k–$1.6M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Red Lantern out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Red Lantern's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 559k–786k

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like The Red Lantern

The middle of these games

≈ 559k–786k copies

≈ $4.1M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 723 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + RPG + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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