How much revenue did Cult of the Lamb make?

$21.9M–$58.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cult of the Lamb sell?

Q: How many copies did Cult of the Lamb sell?

3.2M to 5.2M copies, based on its 129k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.2M–5.2M; $21.9M–$58.9M after Steam's cut $39.9M–$90.7M before the cut; from 129k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Cult of the Lamb out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cult of the Lamb's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 480–11k

best case 91k (Patch Quest)

Games like Cult of the Lamb

The middle of these games

≈ 480–11k copies

≈ $803–$60k after Steam's cut

from ~48 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Patch Quest at ≈ 69k–112k copies, ≈ $285k–$765k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Rogue-lite, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 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 38 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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