How much revenue did Crimsonland make?

$674k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crimsonland sell?

Q: How many copies did Crimsonland sell?

175k to 285k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 175k–285k; $674k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Crimsonland and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crimsonland's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 201k–438k

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Crimsonland

A typical game among these

≈ 201k–438k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.4M 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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (6 of 8) and Violent (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Gore, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Pixel Graphics + 1980s; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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 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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