How much revenue did Love Shore make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love Shore sell?

Q: How many copies did Love Shore sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 74 reviews (Mixed)

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 Love Shore out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Love Shore's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–107k

best case 96k (Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure)

Games like Love Shore

The middle of these games

≈ 88k–107k copies

≈ $414k–$631k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure at ≈ 73k–119k copies, ≈ $321k–$863k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 321 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 127 to 398.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cyberpunk (6 of 8) and Noir (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Noir, priced around $16.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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