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How many copies did Crashbots sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 669–1k
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut
from 22 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Crashbots and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Crashbots's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–121k
best case 262k (Melody's Escape)
Games like Crashbots

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–121k copies

≈ $66k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~906 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 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Melody's Escape at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 50 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 329.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Runner (5 of 7) and Character Customization (4 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music-Based Procedural Generation + Rhythm, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 2 of the 7 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 52 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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