How much revenue did LISA: The Painful make?

An estimated 4.3M to 11.6M net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LISA: The Painful sell?

Q: How many copies did LISA: The Painful sell?

An estimated 784k to 1.3M copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 784k–1.3M; $4.3M–$11.6M net $7.8M–$17.8M gross; from 15k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 LISA: The Painful out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LISA: The Painful's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.3M

best case 5.0M (South Park™: The Stick of Truth™)

The Singleplayer lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 1.8M copies.

A typical game

≈ 1.8M copies

≈ $16.7M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

Best case

≈ 5.0M copies

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ · ≈ $57.7M after Steam's cut

from 73k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with RPG + Comedy, priced around $30.
The games you compared span 2008 to 2023, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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