How much revenue did CRYPTIC make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CRYPTIC sell?

Q: How many copies did CRYPTIC sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 CRYPTIC and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CRYPTIC's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 120k–188k

best case 388k (Suzerain)

Games like CRYPTIC

A typical game among these

≈ 120k–188k copies

≈ $587k–$811k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Suzerain at ≈ 296k–481k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.4M 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 855 reviews in their first month; the range was 113 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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