How much revenue did Lihue make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lihue sell?

Q: How many copies did Lihue sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 15 reviews (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 Lihue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lihue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–51k

best case 906k (Garfield Kart)

Games like Lihue

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–51k copies

≈ $135k–$401k after Steam's cut

from ~713 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Psychedelic (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: Garfield Kart at ≈ 690k–1.1M copies, ≈ $947k–$2.5M 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 216 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 762.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychedelic (3 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cult Classic + Combat Racing, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Cult Classic + Combat Racing + Competitive; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 690k–1.1M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $947k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before the cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Paw Patrol: On A Roll! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $217k–$495k before the cut	$29.99	477 reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyPlatformer
MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $247k–$663k after Steam's cut $448k–$1.0M before the cut	$39.99	904 reviews Very Positive	Adventure3D Platformer
VEGAS Pro 14 Edit Steam Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 63k–102k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Video ProductionSoftware
The Endless Empty 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut	$3.99	318 reviews Very Positive	RPGIndie
Mediterranea Inferno 2023	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $106k–$240k before the cut	$14.99	568 reviews Very Positive	LGBTQ+Choose Your Own Adventure
Great God Grove 2024	Est. copies ≈ 38k–63k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $212k–$569k after Steam's cut $385k–$875k before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleAdventure
Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey 2014	Est. copies ≈ 40k–65k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $219k–$590k after Steam's cut $399k–$908k before the cut	$19.99	713 reviews Very Positive	AdventureFemale Protagonist