How much revenue did Crawling Lab make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crawling Lab sell?

Q: How many copies did Crawling Lab sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 728 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before Steam's cut; from 728 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 Crawling Lab and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crawling Lab's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 815k–2.4M

best case 5.0M (Resident Evil Village)

Games like Crawling Lab

A typical game among these

≈ 815k–2.4M copies

≈ $7.0M–$26.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Resident Evil Village at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 555 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sexual Content (7 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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