How much revenue did The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ make?

$2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ sell?

Q: How many copies did The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ sell?

307k to 498k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 307k–498k; $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.5M before the cut; from 12k 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 Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.7M–16.7M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

The middle of these games

≈ 12.7M–16.7M copies

≈ $157.7M–$203.5M after Steam's cut

from ~400k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 183k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 148 to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Crafting (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Palworld 2026	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.4M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut $179.4M–$408.2M before the cut	$29.99	482k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldSurvival
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.5M–$138.4M after Steam's cut $93.6M–$213.0M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut $223.1M–$507.7M before the cut	$44.99	400k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Valheim 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13.4M–21.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.6M–$297.4M after Steam's cut $201.1M–$457.5M before the cut	$29.99	541k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
rod (removed) 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	322 reviews Mixed	Early AccessDwarf
Satisfactory 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6.9M–11.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $76.0M–$204.4M after Steam's cut $138.2M–$314.4M before the cut	$39.99	279k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingAutomation