How much revenue did Craft The World make?

$5.0M–$13.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Craft The World sell?

Q: How many copies did Craft The World sell?

961k to 1.6M copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 961k–1.6M; $5.0M–$13.5M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.8M before Steam's cut; from 17k 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 Craft The World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Craft The World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–5.6M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like Craft The World

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–5.6M copies

≈ $14.9M–$116.6M after Steam's cut

from ~87k 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 Dwarf (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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 36k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dwarf (4 of 8) and Games Workshop (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	49k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op
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Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.2M after Steam's cut $15.7M–$35.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	21k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionOnline Co-Op
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