How much revenue did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition make?

$583k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition sell?

141k to 230k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 141k–230k; $583k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 2k 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 Planet™: Extreme Condition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 232k–379k

best case 435k (EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5)

Games like Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition

The middle of these games

≈ 232k–379k copies

≈ $3.4M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 at ≈ 332k–539k copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M 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 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Co-op, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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 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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