How much revenue did Paradise Lost make?

$256k–$689k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paradise Lost sell?

Q: How many copies did Paradise Lost sell?

62k to 101k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–101k; $256k–$689k after Steam's cut $466k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Paradise Lost out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paradise Lost's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–2.2M

best case 5.4M (Firewatch)

Games like Paradise Lost

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–2.2M copies

≈ $16k–$26.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Firewatch at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $22.7M–$61.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 95 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Underground (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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