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How many copies did Lies of P sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.0M–3.3M
$33.4M–$89.7M after Steam's cut $60.7M–$138.1M before the cut
from 82k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Lies of P out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lies of P's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.7M–7.3M
best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)
Games like Lies of P

The middle of these games

≈ 6.7M–7.3M copies

≈ $77.6M–$90.1M after Steam's cut

from ~183k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 102k to 836k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Third Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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