How much revenue did The Last Worker make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last Worker sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last Worker sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before the cut; from 75 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 The Last Worker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last Worker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.8M

best case 3.8M (The Stanley Parable)

Games like The Last Worker

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–1.8M copies

≈ $8.0M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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 First-Person (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: The Stanley Parable at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 166 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Walking Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Narration, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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 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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