How much revenue did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling make?

$48k–$130k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling sell?

Q: How many copies did Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling sell?

88k to 143k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 88k–143k; $48k–$130k after Steam's cut $88k–$200k before the cut; from 4k 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 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293k–2.1M

best case 7.2M (To the Moon)

Games like Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

The middle of these games

≈ 293k–2.1M copies

≈ $1.6M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: To the Moon at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2020, 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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