How much revenue did CreatorCrate make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CreatorCrate sell?

Q: How many copies did CreatorCrate sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid CreatorCrate and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CreatorCrate's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–293k

best case 716k (Spelunky 2)

Games like CreatorCrate

A typical game among these

≈ 75k–293k copies

≈ $439k–$895k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spelunky 2 at ≈ 545k–886k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 948 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 79 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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