How much revenue did Project L33T: Founders Edition make?

$93k–$250k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project L33T: Founders Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Project L33T: Founders Edition sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 683 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $93k–$250k after Steam's cut $169k–$385k before the cut; from 683 reviews (Mixed)

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 Project L33T: Founders Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project L33T: Founders Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.3M–28.3M

best case 31.7M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Project L33T: Founders Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 12.3M–28.3M copies

≈ $160.7M–$214.0M after Steam's cut

from ~512k 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $399.0M–$1072.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 229k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, and 2 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 43 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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