How much revenue did Lone Fungus make?

$162k–$434k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lone Fungus sell?

Q: How many copies did Lone Fungus sell?

29k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–48k; $162k–$434k after Steam's cut $294k–$668k before the cut; from 1k 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 Lone Fungus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lone Fungus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 500k–679k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Lone Fungus

The middle of these games

≈ 500k–679k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Atmospheric + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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