How much revenue did CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) make?

$62–$164 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) sell?

Q: How many copies did CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $62–$164 after Steam's cut $112–$252 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–10k

best case 46k (Pixel Sketch)

Games like CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★)

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–10k copies

≈ $3k–$29k after Steam's cut

from ~149 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Pixel Sketch at ≈ 35k–57k copies. 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 27 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 34.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Education (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Education + Word Game. The breakout hits carry PvP + Experimental + 3D Vision; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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