How much revenue did Castlewatch make?

$176–$475 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castlewatch sell?

Q: How many copies did Castlewatch sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $176–$475 after Steam's cut $320–$730 before Steam's cut; from 13 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 Castlewatch and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castlewatch's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90–179

best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Castlewatch

A typical game among these

≈ 90–179 copies

≈ $163–$753 after Steam's cut

from ~4 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: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M 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 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 171k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (8 of 8) and Magic (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fantasy, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + 2D + Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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Hogwarts Legacy 2023	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M 93628x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $153.2M–$412.0M after Steam's cut $278.6M–$633.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	375k reviews Very Positive	MagicOpen World
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