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How many copies did LurkBait Twitch Fishing sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 15k–25k
$29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$120k before the cut
from 610 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 LurkBait Twitch Fishing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LurkBait Twitch Fishing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–191k
best case 412k (Luma Island)
Games like LurkBait Twitch Fishing

The middle of these games

≈ 84k–191k copies

≈ $579k–$1.3M 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: Luma Island at ≈ 314k–510k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 854 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 189 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Creature Collector (5 of 8) and Farming Sim (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Crafting, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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3.1x vs typical
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