How much revenue did Craftimals: Build to the Sun make?

$41–$110 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Craftimals: Build to the Sun sell?

Q: How many copies did Craftimals: Build to the Sun sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Craftimals: Build to the Sun and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Craftimals: Build to the Sun's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 701–634k

best case 3.3M (Super Meat Boy)

Games like Craftimals: Build to the Sun

A typical game among these

≈ 701–634k copies

≈ $2k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~466 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Super Meat Boy at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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