How much revenue did Lovely Planet make?

$250k–$672k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lovely Planet sell?

Q: How many copies did Lovely Planet sell?

152k to 246k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 152k–246k; $250k–$672k after Steam's cut $454k–$1.0M before the cut; from 3k 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 Lovely Planet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lovely Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–8.6M

best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Lovely Planet

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–8.6M copies

≈ $81.9M–$93.3M after Steam's cut

from ~217k 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: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Competitive + e-sports + Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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