How much revenue did laf the game make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did laf the game sell?

Q: How many copies did laf the game sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 laf the game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including laf the game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–160k

best case 429k (Internet Cafe Simulator 2)

Games like laf the game

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–160k copies

≈ $83k–$1.2M 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Life Sim (4 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: Internet Cafe Simulator 2 at ≈ 327k–532k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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