How much revenue did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. make?

$204–$548 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. sell?

Q: How many copies did It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $204–$548 after Steam's cut $371–$843 before the cut; from 10 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 It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG. out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423–3k

best case 5k (Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2)

Games like It Lurks! A Noir Horror RPG.

The middle of these games

≈ 423–3k copies

≈ $2k–$22k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

None of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $22k–$58k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 84.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (6 of 7) and Hack and Slash (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Lovecraftian, priced around $20.
The era: Only 1 of your 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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