How much revenue did Lost Surreal Hell make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Surreal Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Surreal Hell sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 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 Lost Surreal Hell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Surreal Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–148k

best case 300k (INDIKA)

Games like Lost Surreal Hell

The middle of these games

≈ 69k–148k copies

≈ $332k–$722k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: INDIKA at ≈ 229k–372k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M 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 836 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Dark (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Surreal, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Surreal + Old School + Boomer Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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