How much revenue did Lushfoil Photography Sim make?

$182k–$490k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lushfoil Photography Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Lushfoil Photography Sim sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $182k–$490k after Steam's cut $331k–$754k before the cut; from 2k 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 Lushfoil Photography Sim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lushfoil Photography Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 347k–986k

best case 7.5M (Far Cry® 5)

Games like Lushfoil Photography Sim

The middle of these games

≈ 347k–986k copies

≈ $3.6M–$20.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Far Cry® 5 at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.6M–$254.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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