How much revenue did CrimSaw make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CrimSaw sell?

Q: How many copies did CrimSaw sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 CrimSaw and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CrimSaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–66k

best case 151k (Immortal Redneck)

Games like CrimSaw

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–66k copies

≈ $119k–$391k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Immortal Redneck at ≈ 115k–187k copies, ≈ $632k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 511 reviews in their first month; the range was 90 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Arena Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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Immortal Redneck 2017	Est. copies ≈ 115k–187k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $632k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$19.95	3k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
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