How much revenue did Lizard Quest! make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lizard Quest! sell?

Q: How many copies did Lizard Quest! sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 31 reviews (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 Lizard Quest! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lizard Quest!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–262k

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like Lizard Quest!

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–262k copies

≈ $58k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.1M–$40.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 224 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Collectathon (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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