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How many copies did The Land Beneath Us sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$27k–$73k after Steam's cut $50k–$113k before the cut
from 267 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 The Land Beneath Us out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Land Beneath Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–13k
best case 20k (Rack and Slay)
Games like The Land Beneath Us

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–13k copies

≈ $11k–$34k after Steam's cut

from ~183 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (3 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: Rack and Slay at ≈ 15k–25k copies, ≈ $25k–$67k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 365.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (3 of 8) and Rogue-lite (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Pool, priced around $6.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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