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How many copies did Legacy of Sin: The Father Sacrifice sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut
from 81 reviews (Mixed)

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

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We left Legacy of Sin: The Father Sacrifice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Legacy of Sin: The Father Sacrifice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 704k–971k
best case 12.9M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)
Games like Legacy of Sin: The Father Sacrifice

The middle of these games

≈ 704k–971k copies

≈ $3.3M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.8M–16.0M copies, ≈ $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (3 of 8) and Sandbox (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Stealth + Tactical, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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 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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