How much revenue did Cthulhu pub make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cthulhu pub sell?

Q: How many copies did Cthulhu pub sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 47 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 Cthulhu pub and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cthulhu pub's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–20k

best case 17.5M (Sid Meier's Civilization® V)

Games like Cthulhu pub

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–20k copies

≈ $22k–$57k after Steam's cut

from ~185 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier's Civilization® V at ≈ 13.3M–21.7M copies, ≈ $110.0M–$295.6M 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 402 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Replay Value (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based + Multiplayer + Historical; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2026, and 3 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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