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How many copies did Spirit City: Lofi Sessions sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 411k–668k
$1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before the cut
from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Spirit City: Lofi Sessions out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirit City: Lofi Sessions's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 118k–175k
best case 360k (Virtual Cottage)
Games like Spirit City: Lofi Sessions

The middle of these games

≈ 118k–175k copies

≈ $225k–$426k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Virtual Cottage at ≈ 275k–446k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 390 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 930.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Utilities (7 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Cozy + Life Sim.
The era
6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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