How much revenue did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ make?

$5.6M–$15.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ sell?

Q: How many copies did LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; $5.6M–$15.0M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.1M before the cut; from 16k 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 LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 676k–1.7M

best case 1.6M (LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga)

Games like LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

The middle of these games

≈ 676k–1.7M copies

≈ $5.2M–$17.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

Best case: LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (8 of 8) and LEGO (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LEGO + Co-op, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, and none of them 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 79 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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LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut $30.0M–$68.3M before the cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
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