How much revenue did Crypt Custodian make?

$432k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crypt Custodian sell?

Q: How many copies did Crypt Custodian sell?

79k to 128k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 79k–128k; $432k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $785k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Crypt Custodian and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crypt Custodian's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–264k

best case 609k (TUNIC)

Games like Crypt Custodian

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–264k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: TUNIC at ≈ 464k–753k copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 906 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Puzzle, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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