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How many copies did Kill The Crows sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 79k–128k
$108k–$291k after Steam's cut $197k–$447k 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 Kill The Crows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kill The Crows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.7M
best case 3.7M (Call of Juarez: Gunslinger)
Games like Kill The Crows

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.7M copies

≈ $13.8M–$22.5M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 16k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Arcade (5 of 8) and 2D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Western + FPS, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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 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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