How much revenue did Lightracer Spark make?

$90k–$242k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lightracer Spark sell?

Q: How many copies did Lightracer Spark sell?

25k to 41k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–41k; $90k–$242k after Steam's cut $164k–$373k 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 Lightracer Spark out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lightracer Spark's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–47k

best case 361k (Deliver Us The Moon)

Games like Lightracer Spark

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–47k copies

≈ $22k–$374k after Steam's cut

from ~502 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deliver Us The Moon at ≈ 275k–447k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 191 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 598.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Sci-fi, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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