How much revenue did Critters for Sale make?

$131k–$351k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Critters for Sale sell?

Q: How many copies did Critters for Sale sell?

48k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 48k–77k; $131k–$351k after Steam's cut $237k–$540k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Critters for Sale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Critters for Sale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–48k

best case 139k (Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End)

Games like Critters for Sale

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–48k copies

≈ $5k–$100k after Steam's cut

from ~318 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End at ≈ 106k–172k copies, ≈ $116k–$312k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 65 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 307.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $4.
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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