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How many copies did Laika sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before the cut
from 19 reviews (Mostly 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 Laika out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Laika's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–411k
best case 516k (Goat Simulator 3)
Games like Laika

The middle of these games

≈ 176k–411k copies

≈ $1.0M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Goat Simulator 3 at ≈ 393k–639k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 763 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + Physics, priced around $30.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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