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 208 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 Steam's cut; from 208 reviews (Mixed)

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

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

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–4.8M copies

≈ $18.5M–$65.7M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.1M–27.8M copies, ≈ $94.0M–$252.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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Rise of the Tomb Raider™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.6M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $53.7M–$144.2M after Steam's cut $97.5M–$221.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	156k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
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