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How many copies did LuPR: Lunar Post Recruit sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
$375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before the cut
from 11 reviews (Positive)

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 LuPR: Lunar Post Recruit out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LuPR: Lunar Post Recruit's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 348k–1.1M
best case 1.0M (DUSK)
Games like LuPR: Lunar Post Recruit

The middle of these games

≈ 348k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.5M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: DUSK at ≈ 774k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2019, 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 36 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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