How much revenue did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure make?

$321k–$863k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure sell?

73k to 119k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–119k; $321k–$863k after Steam's cut $584k–$1.3M before the cut; from 3k 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 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–191k

best case 577k (Shadows of Doubt)

Games like Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 109k–191k copies

≈ $663k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Shadows of Doubt at ≈ 440k–715k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Point & Click (6 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Immersive Sim, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Immersive Sim + Sandbox + Voxel; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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