How much revenue did Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun make?

$910–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun sell?

Q: How many copies did Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $910–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 67 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 Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–265k

best case 39.6M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun

The middle of these games

≈ 75k–265k copies

≈ $569k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.2M–49.0M copies, ≈ $207.3M–$557.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 221 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Co-op + Post-apocalyptic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2026, 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 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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