How much revenue did Creepy Tale 2 make?

$108k–$290k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Creepy Tale 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Creepy Tale 2 sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $108k–$290k after Steam's cut $196k–$446k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Creepy Tale 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creepy Tale 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 95k–175k

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like Creepy Tale 2

A typical game among these

≈ 95k–175k copies

≈ $461k–$885k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hand-drawn (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut. 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 694 reviews in their first month; the range was 142 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hand-drawn (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Horror + Drama + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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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Creepy Tale 2020	Est. copies ≈ 74k–120k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $101k–$273k after Steam's cut $185k–$420k before Steam's cut	$4.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerDark
Raji: An Ancient Epic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 71k–115k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $487k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $886k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingMythology
Card Shark 2022	Est. copies ≈ 81k–131k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $443k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $805k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	IndieStory Rich
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective 2021	Est. copies ≈ 56k–92k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $186k–$500k after Steam's cut $338k–$769k before Steam's cut	$11.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureHidden Object
Katawa Shoujo 2024	Est. copies ≈ 155k–251k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelRomance
Kathy Rain 2016	Est. copies ≈ 167k–271k SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $458k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $833k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickAdventure
Firework 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	44k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorIndie
Beacon Pines 2022	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $616k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich