How much revenue did Krakatoa make?

$419–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Krakatoa sell?

Q: How many copies did Krakatoa sell?

2k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $419–$1k after Steam's cut $761–$2k before the cut; from 62 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 Krakatoa out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Krakatoa's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 221k–2.0M

best case 9.0M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Krakatoa

The middle of these games

≈ 221k–2.0M copies

≈ $2.6M–$45.2M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $75.3M–$202.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 427 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of your 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 36 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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