How much revenue did The Crimson Diamond make?

$71k–$192k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Crimson Diamond sell?

Q: How many copies did The Crimson Diamond sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 699 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before Steam's cut; from 699 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 The Crimson Diamond and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Crimson Diamond's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–323k

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like The Crimson Diamond

A typical game among these

≈ 47k–323k copies

≈ $196k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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