How much revenue did Love is Dead make?

$27k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love is Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Love is Dead sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 274 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $27k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before the cut; from 274 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–4.3M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Love is Dead

The middle of these games

≈ 3.4M–4.3M copies

≈ $20.9M–$37.9M after Steam's cut

from ~80k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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