How much revenue did Creaks make?

$845k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Creaks sell?

Q: How many copies did Creaks sell?

154k to 250k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 154k–250k; $845k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Creaks and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creaks's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 959k–1.7M

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like Creaks

A typical game among these

≈ 959k–1.7M copies

≈ $4.5M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 13k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Hand-drawn (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
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