How much revenue did Lakeview Valley make?

$90k–$242k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lakeview Valley sell?

Q: How many copies did Lakeview Valley sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 758 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $90k–$242k after Steam's cut $164k–$372k before the cut; from 758 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 Lakeview Valley out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lakeview Valley's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–660k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Lakeview Valley

The middle of these games

≈ 264k–660k copies

≈ $3.9M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.4M–$235.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on CRPG (5 of 8) and Tactical RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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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