How much revenue did Castle Craft make?

$68k–$184k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castle Craft sell?

Q: How many copies did Castle Craft sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 502 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $68k–$184k after Steam's cut $124k–$283k before Steam's cut; from 502 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 Castle Craft and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castle Craft's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–1.1M

best case 1.3M (Clone Drone in the Danger Zone)

Games like Castle Craft

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.5M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Sandbox (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: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone at ≈ 983k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 163 reviews in their first month; the range was 46 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (4 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + 3D Fighter, priced around $20.
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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Planet Nomads 2019	Est. copies ≈ 59k–95k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mixed	Sci-fiProcedural Generation
Creativerse 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.5M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$30.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	31k reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationSandbox
Peekaboo Lite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	167 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction
Planet Explorers 2016	Est. copies ≈ 284k–461k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 983k–1.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut $9.8M–$22.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RobotsAction
Portal Knights 2017	Est. copies ≈ 770k–1.3M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	22k reviews Very Positive	AdventureMultiplayer
Cube World 2019	Est. copies ≈ 540k–877k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	19k reviews Mostly Negative	Open WorldAdventure
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2024	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $155k–$416k after Steam's cut $281k–$640k before Steam's cut	$27.99	810 reviews Very Positive	RPGJRPG