How much revenue did Lazy Galaxy make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lazy Galaxy sell?

Q: How many copies did Lazy Galaxy sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 205 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$35k before the cut; from 205 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 Lazy Galaxy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lazy Galaxy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 489k–3.0M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Lazy Galaxy

The middle of these games

≈ 489k–3.0M copies

≈ $5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 97 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 12k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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