How much revenue did Late For Work make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Late For Work sell?

Q: How many copies did Late For Work sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 84 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 84 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 Late For Work out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Late For Work's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–35k

best case 1.1M (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes)

Games like Late For Work

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–35k copies

≈ $136k–$273k after Steam's cut

from ~670 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes at ≈ 835k–1.4M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 512 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 339 to 899.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and Asymmetric VR (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Violent, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry 3D Fighter + Gore + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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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GORN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 237k–385k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
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