How much revenue did Crooks Like Us make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crooks Like Us sell?

Q: How many copies did Crooks Like Us sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–424k

best case 1.1M (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes)

Games like Crooks Like Us

A typical game among these

≈ 142k–424k copies

≈ $306k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes at ≈ 838k–1.4M copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 90 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (8 of 8) and Arcade (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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 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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