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How many copies did CRIXUS: Life of free Gladiator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372–605
$817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 15 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 CRIXUS: Life of free Gladiator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CRIXUS: Life of free Gladiator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 420k–1.2M
best case 1.7M (TCG Card Shop Simulator)
Games like CRIXUS: Life of free Gladiator

A typical game among these

≈ 420k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.0M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: TCG Card Shop Simulator at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 51k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 to 2026, 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 38 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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Est. copies
≈ 1.3M–2.0M
2.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
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$6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut
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Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
2023
Est. copies
≈ 1.2M–2.0M
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SteamSpy 1M–2M
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Est. copies
≈ 207k–337k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
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$21.99
8k reviews
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Free
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Est. copies
≈ 331k–538k
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Est. copies
≈ 286k–464k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
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