How much revenue did The Crimson Diamond make?

$71k–$190k 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 692 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $71k–$190k after Steam's cut $129k–$293k before the cut; from 692 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Crimson Diamond out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Crimson Diamond's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–323k

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like The Crimson Diamond

The middle of these games

≈ 47k–323k copies

≈ $195k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

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

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared 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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