How much revenue did Crime Scene Cleaner make?

$7.1M–$19.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crime Scene Cleaner sell?

Q: How many copies did Crime Scene Cleaner sell?

858k to 1.4M copies, based on its 35k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 858k–1.4M; $7.1M–$19.0M after Steam's cut $12.9M–$29.3M before Steam's cut; from 35k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Crime Scene Cleaner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crime Scene Cleaner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 357k–961k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Crime Scene Cleaner

A typical game among these

≈ 357k–961k copies

≈ $2.0M–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Realistic (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 865 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Realistic (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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