How much revenue did Crush the Industry make?

$40k–$109k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crush the Industry sell?

Q: How many copies did Crush the Industry sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 396 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before Steam's cut; from 396 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 Crush the Industry and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crush the Industry's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–266k

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Crush the Industry

A typical game among these

≈ 127k–266k copies

≈ $947k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut. 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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