How much revenue did Capslock make?

$655–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Capslock sell?

Q: How many copies did Capslock sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $655–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (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 Capslock and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Capslock's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–283k

best case 806k (Tiny Glade)

Games like Capslock

A typical game among these

≈ 141k–283k copies

≈ $795k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Tiny Glade at ≈ 614k–998k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 520 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Design & Illustration, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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