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How many copies did Lizard Slayer sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372–605
$101–$272 after Steam's cut $184–$419 before the cut
from 15 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Lizard Slayer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lizard Slayer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–7.1M
best case 13.4M (Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition)
Games like Lizard Slayer

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–7.1M copies

≈ $21.8M–$109.2M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition at ≈ 10.2M–16.6M copies, ≈ $168.6M–$453.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 14k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Third Person (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Ninja, priced around $60.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 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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