How much revenue did Caveman Craig make?

$11k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Caveman Craig sell?

Q: How many copies did Caveman Craig sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 158 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before Steam's cut; from 158 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 Caveman Craig and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Caveman Craig's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–13.9M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Caveman Craig

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–13.9M copies

≈ $22.3M–$53.6M after Steam's cut

from ~118k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 67k reviews in their first month; the range was 76 to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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