How much revenue did Crab Champions make?

$2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crab Champions sell?

Q: How many copies did Crab Champions sell?

774k to 1.3M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 774k–1.3M; $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut; from 31k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Crab Champions and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crab Champions's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 240k–674k

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Crab Champions

A typical game among these

≈ 240k–674k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Looter Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Rogue-like + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Risk of Rain 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.2M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut $109.5M–$249.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	353k reviews Very Positive	Third-Person ShooterAction Roguelike
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