How much revenue did Spider Queen cave make?

$27k–$72k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spider Queen cave sell?

Q: How many copies did Spider Queen cave sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 207 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before the cut; from 207 reviews (Mixed)

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 Spider Queen cave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spider Queen cave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.8M

best case 22.4M (Tomb Raider Game of the Year)

Games like Spider Queen cave

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.8M copies

≈ $18.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.0M–27.7M copies, ≈ $93.7M–$251.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Third Person, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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 79 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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