How much revenue did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 27 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 Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.1M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–2.1M copies

≈ $13.8M–$20.4M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M 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 31k reviews in their first month; the range was 22k to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (6 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $24. The breakout hits carry Space + Sandbox + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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