How much revenue did Howard Phillips Lovecar make?

$832–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Howard Phillips Lovecar sell?

Q: How many copies did Howard Phillips Lovecar sell?

2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $832–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before the cut; from 50 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 Howard Phillips Lovecar out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Howard Phillips Lovecar's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423–354k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Howard Phillips Lovecar

The middle of these games

≈ 423–354k copies

≈ $830–$145k after Steam's cut

from ~62 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: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 41k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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