How much revenue did Crystal Guardians TD make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crystal Guardians TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Crystal Guardians TD sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 116 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before Steam's cut; from 116 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 Crystal Guardians TD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crystal Guardians TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 448k–677k

best case 758k (Tribes of Midgard)

Games like Crystal Guardians TD

A typical game among these

≈ 448k–677k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (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: Tribes of Midgard at ≈ 577k–938k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Rogue-lite, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Card Battler + Card Game + Deckbuilding; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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