How much revenue did Lost Castle / 失落城堡 make?

$2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Castle / 失落城堡 sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Castle / 失落城堡 sell?

996k to 1.6M copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 996k–1.6M; $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before the cut; from 24k 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 Lost Castle / 失落城堡 out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Castle / 失落城堡's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293k–838k

best case 879k (PlateUp!)

Games like Lost Castle / 失落城堡

The middle of these games

≈ 293k–838k copies

≈ $1.7M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (3 of 6), 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: PlateUp! at ≈ 670k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (3 of 6) and Co-op (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Management, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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