How much revenue did Lost In The Shadows make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost In The Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost In The Shadows sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before the cut; from 13 reviews (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 Lost In The Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost In The Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 317k–1.6M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Lost In The Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 317k–1.6M copies

≈ $629k–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Economy (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: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 796 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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