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How many copies did Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$179–$479 after Steam's cut $325–$737 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 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.

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We left Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–351k
best case 413k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)
Games like Lift: The Last Days of The Westwind

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–351k copies

≈ $532k–$2.4M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 315k–512k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 1k reviews in their first month.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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