How many copies has Lost in Play sold?

indielist estimates Lost in Play has sold between 370,776 and 865,144 units (median 617,960), derived from its 8,828 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Lost in Play?

Lost in Play was published by Joystick Ventures, developed by Happy Juice Games. See Joystick Ventures's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Lost in Play released?

Lost in Play was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Lost in Play have on Steam?

Lost in Play has 8,828 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Lost in Play worth playing?

Steam players rate Lost in Play 98% positive across 8,828 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Lost in Play

Aug 10, 2022 Adventure $19.99

Developer Happy Juice Games Publisher Joystick Ventures

Profile updated May 2026

Lost in Play is an adventure game released in 2022. It has received 7,334 reviews on Steam. The developer slug is unknown, and publisher attribution is not yet imported.

Lost in Play is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Happy Juice Games and published by Joystick Ventures. On Steam it has gathered 8,828 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Happy Juice Games with publisher Joystick Ventures is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 371,000 to 865,000 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, Lost in Play can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,828

Positive

98%

Steam appid

1328840

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

202

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 13:20 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

371K to 865K

units (median: 618K)

≈ $4.2M to $9.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

371K median 865K

+ How is this calculated?

8,828 reviews × NB(70) = 617,960 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$20	0
positive_98%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	70

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 Lost in Play at roughly 371,000 to 865,000 copies, with a median around 618,000, derived from its 8,828 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.1M 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

54 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Lost in Play sold?: indielist estimates Lost in Play has sold between 370,776 and 865,144 units (median 617,960), derived from its 8,828 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Lost in Play?: Lost in Play was developed by Happy Juice Games and published by Joystick Ventures.
Who published Lost in Play?: Lost in Play was published by Joystick Ventures, developed by Happy Juice Games. See Joystick Ventures's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Lost in Play released?: Lost in Play was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Lost in Play have on Steam?: Lost in Play has 8,828 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Lost in Play worth playing?: Steam players rate Lost in Play 98% positive across 8,828 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Lost in Play can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Carto, Creaks, GRIS, Fran Bow, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Happy Juice Games's other releases and Joystick Ventures's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lost in Play 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 Lost in Play page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.