How much revenue did Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light make?

$831k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light sell?

302k to 491k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 302k–491k; $831k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 5k 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 Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 394k–1.2M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

The middle of these games

≈ 394k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.6M–$6.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Puzzle + Split Screen; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2021, 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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