How much revenue did Creative Destruction make?

Creative Destruction is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Creative Destruction sell?

Q: How many copies did Creative Destruction sell?

552k to 897k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 552k–897k; from 18k reviews (Mostly 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 Creative Destruction and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creative Destruction's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–15.3M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Creative Destruction

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–15.3M copies

≈ $68.3M–$136.1M after Steam's cut

from ~151k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 76k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (7 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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