How much revenue did The Curse Of Yendor make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Curse Of Yendor sell?

Q: How many copies did The Curse Of Yendor sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 75 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 The Curse Of Yendor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Curse Of Yendor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–14k

best case 63k (Hack, Slash, Loot)

Games like The Curse Of Yendor

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–14k copies

≈ $4k–$94k after Steam's cut

from ~226 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hack, Slash, Loot at ≈ 48k–77k copies, ≈ $78k–$211k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 52 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 160.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Traditional Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, and 3 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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