How much revenue did Creeper World 4 make?

$807k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Creeper World 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did Creeper World 4 sell?

117k to 191k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 117k–191k; $807k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Creeper World 4 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creeper World 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–437k

best case 636k (Mechabellum)

Games like Creeper World 4

A typical game among these

≈ 56k–437k copies

≈ $112k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Mechabellum at ≈ 485k–788k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 109 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (5 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Auto Battler, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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