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How many copies did KryptCrawler sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
from 41 reviews (Mixed)

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 KryptCrawler and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including KryptCrawler's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–122k
best case 559k (Legend of Grimrock)
Games like KryptCrawler

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–122k copies

≈ $349k–$1.5M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 426k–692k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Grid-Based Movement (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 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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