How much revenue did The Land of Pain make?

$88k–$236k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Land of Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did The Land of Pain sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 773 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $88k–$236k after Steam's cut $159k–$363k before the cut; from 773 reviews (Mostly 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 The Land of Pain out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Land of Pain's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–76k

best case 182k (The Sinking City Remastered)

Games like The Land of Pain

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–76k copies

≈ $4k–$685k after Steam's cut

from ~380 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Sinking City Remastered at ≈ 139k–225k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 55 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 239.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Third-Person Shooter, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 8 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 43 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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