How much revenue did Last Call BBS make?

$217k–$584k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Last Call BBS sell?

Q: How many copies did Last Call BBS sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $217k–$584k after Steam's cut $395k–$898k 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 Last Call BBS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Last Call BBS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–13k

best case 44k (Underworld Idle)

Games like Last Call BBS

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–13k copies

≈ $9k–$33k after Steam's cut

from ~167 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: Underworld Idle at ≈ 34k–55k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 662.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Automation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Clicker.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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