How much revenue did Luna's Fishing Garden make?

$122k–$327k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Luna's Fishing Garden sell?

Q: How many copies did Luna's Fishing Garden sell?

55k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–90k; $122k–$327k after Steam's cut $221k–$503k before the cut; from 2k 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 Luna's Fishing Garden out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Luna's Fishing Garden's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–328k

best case 2.3M (WEBFISHING)

Games like Luna's Fishing Garden

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–328k copies

≈ $3k–$1.4M 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (4 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: WEBFISHING at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Collectathon (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Character Customization, priced around $5.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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