How much revenue did CROPS! make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CROPS! sell?

Q: How many copies did CROPS! sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 218 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut; from 218 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 CROPS! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CROPS!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–95k

best case 377k (Luck be a Landlord)

Games like CROPS!

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–95k copies

≈ $85k–$635k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Luck be a Landlord at ≈ 287k–467k copies, ≈ $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

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 256 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Deckbuilding, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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