How much revenue did Ritual: Crown of Horns make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ritual: Crown of Horns sell?

Q: How many copies did Ritual: Crown of Horns sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut; from 73 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 Ritual: Crown of Horns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ritual: Crown of Horns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–80k

best case 2.1M (HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition)

Games like Ritual: Crown of Horns

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–80k copies

≈ $18k–$441k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 108 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 431.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Twin Stick Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 3 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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