How much revenue did Creatures of Ava make?

$96k–$258k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Creatures of Ava sell?

Q: How many copies did Creatures of Ava sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 564 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $96k–$258k after Steam's cut $175k–$398k before Steam's cut; from 564 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 Creatures of Ava and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creatures of Ava's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–18k

best case 425k (WILD HEARTS™)

Games like Creatures of Ava

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–18k copies

≈ $89k–$137k after Steam's cut

from ~536 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: WILD HEARTS™ at ≈ 324k–527k copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M 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 382 reviews in their first month; the range was 83 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Co-op, priced around $43. The breakout hits carry Action + Hunting + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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