How much revenue did The Unlife of Gorlak make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Unlife of Gorlak sell?

Q: How many copies did The Unlife of Gorlak sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut; from 54 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 The Unlife of Gorlak out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Unlife of Gorlak's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–661k

best case 1.5M (Dragon Age™: The Veilguard)

Games like The Unlife of Gorlak

The middle of these games

≈ 196k–661k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Dragon Age™: The Veilguard at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $18.4M–$49.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 448 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with LGBTQ+ + Fantasy, priced around $60.
The era: Only 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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