How much revenue did Fight Crab 2 make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fight Crab 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Fight Crab 2 sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 166 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before Steam's cut; from 166 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 Fight Crab 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fight Crab 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–397k

best case 1.5M (CRSED: Cuisine Royale)

Games like Fight Crab 2

A typical game among these

≈ 264k–397k copies

≈ $1.9M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 Comedy (3 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: CRSED: Cuisine Royale at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies. 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (3 of 8) and Battle Royale (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Open World, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Open World + Survival + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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