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How many copies did Lifeless Planet Premier Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 203k–330k
$558k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut
from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Lifeless Planet Premier Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lifeless Planet Premier Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–339k
best case 434k (The Talos Principle 2)
Games like Lifeless Planet Premier Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 127k–339k copies

≈ $978k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 331k–538k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 900 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 212 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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