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How many copies did Loddlenaut sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 155k–251k
$850k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before the cut
from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Loddlenaut out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Loddlenaut's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–73k
best case 1.5M (ABZU)
Games like Loddlenaut

The middle of these games

≈ 52k–73k copies

≈ $331k–$508k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: ABZU at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.0M 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 292 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 186 to 359.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Underwater + Exploration, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Relaxing + Underwater; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 1 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 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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