How much revenue did The Keep make?

$27k–$72k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Keep sell?

Q: How many copies did The Keep sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 190 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before Steam's cut; from 190 reviews (Mostly 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 The Keep and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Keep's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–63k

best case 559k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like The Keep

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–63k copies

≈ $36k–$537k after Steam's cut

from ~400 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: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 426k–692k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2019, 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 36 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 426k–692k 17x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Dungeon Of Dragon Knight 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $63k–$142k before Steam's cut	$11.99	362 reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Stonekeep 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before Steam's cut	$14.99	149 reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
Vaporum 2017	Est. copies ≈ 37k–60k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $202k–$544k after Steam's cut $368k–$836k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon Crawler CRPG
Tower of Time 2018	Est. copies ≈ 81k–132k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $557k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Real Time TacticsReal-Time
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18k–30k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $73k–$165k before Steam's cut	$7.99	437 reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
A Healer Only Lives Twice 2016	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut	$4.99	242 reviews Very Positive	StrategyIndie
Skeletal Dance Party 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut	$8.99	70 reviews Very Positive	PhysicsVillain Protagonist