How much revenue did Curious Cases make?

$21k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Curious Cases sell?

Q: How many copies did Curious Cases sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 388 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $21k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$89k before Steam's cut; from 388 reviews (Mostly 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 Curious Cases and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Curious Cases's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.4M

best case 4.6M (Poppy Playtime)

Games like Curious Cases

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies

≈ $4.3M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Poppy Playtime at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Horror + Survival Horror + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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