How much revenue did Control Craft 3 make?

$19k–$52k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Control Craft 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Control Craft 3 sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 339 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before Steam's cut; from 339 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 Control Craft 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Control Craft 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–35k

best case 374k (Reventure)

Games like Control Craft 3

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–35k copies

≈ $7k–$228k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Reventure at ≈ 285k–463k copies, ≈ $966k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 339.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Comedy, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Guardian of Lore 2021	Est. copies ≈ 868–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut	$13.99	35 reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationMetroidvania
Earth Analog 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before Steam's cut	$19.99	113 reviews Mixed	SpaceExploration
Soul Reaper 2020	Est. copies ≈ 744–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before Steam's cut	$19.99	30 reviews Mixed	Creature CollectorLoot
Alluris 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before Steam's cut	$9.99	172 reviews Very Positive	CasualRPG
Other Worlds India 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	141 reviews Mixed	Choose Your Own AdventureMetroidvania
Toki Tori 2+ 2013	Est. copies ≈ 70k–113k 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $288k–$774k after Steam's cut $523k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerChoose Your Own Adventure
Reventure 2019	Est. copies ≈ 285k–463k 63x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $966k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$12.34	10k reviews Very Positive	AdventureIndie
Super Dungeon Maker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $69k–$185k after Steam's cut $125k–$284k before Steam's cut	$19.99	504 reviews Very Positive	ColorfulChoose Your Own Adventure