How much revenue did StarCrawlers make?

$170k–$457k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did StarCrawlers sell?

Q: How many copies did StarCrawlers sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 899 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before Steam's cut; from 899 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 StarCrawlers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including StarCrawlers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–105k

best case 584k (Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus)

Games like StarCrawlers

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–105k copies

≈ $92k–$642k after Steam's cut

from ~584 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: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus at ≈ 445k–723k copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 153 reviews in their first month; the range was 95 to 226.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Warhammer 40K + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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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