LOTUS-Simulator
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An indie game developed by oriolus-software-gmbh, LOTUS-Simulator launched in 2018 at an initial price of $49.99. The studio also publishes the game, which has 695 Steam reviews and a listed mixed rating.
Overview
LOTUS-Simulator is a 2018 Indie game developed by Oriolus Software GmbH and published by Oriolus Software GmbH. On Steam it has gathered 695 player reviews to date. The game is available on windows, and launched at $50. The pairing of developer Oriolus Software GmbH with publisher Oriolus Software GmbH is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 33,000 to 78,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, LOTUS-Simulator can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
695
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
370350
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.033K to 78K
units (median: 56K)
≈ $953K to $2.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$50 | +15 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for LOTUS-Simulator at roughly 33,000 to 78,000 copies, with a median around 56,000, derived from its 695 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has LOTUS-Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates LOTUS-Simulator has sold between 33,360 and 77,840 units (median 55,600), derived from its 695 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed LOTUS-Simulator?
- LOTUS-Simulator was developed by Oriolus Software GmbH and published by Oriolus Software GmbH.
- Who published LOTUS-Simulator?
- LOTUS-Simulator was published by Oriolus Software GmbH, developed by Oriolus Software GmbH. See Oriolus Software GmbH's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was LOTUS-Simulator released?
- LOTUS-Simulator was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does LOTUS-Simulator have on Steam?
- LOTUS-Simulator has 695 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like LOTUS-Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Oriolus Software GmbH's other releases and Oriolus Software GmbH's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where LOTUS-Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same LOTUS-Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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