How much revenue did Curious Cases make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Curious Cases sell?

Q: How many copies did Curious Cases sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 386 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut; from 386 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Curious Cases out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Curious Cases's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.4M

best case 4.6M (Poppy Playtime)

Games like Curious Cases

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies

≈ $4.2M–$15.1M after Steam's cut

from ~33k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Poppy Playtime at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Horror + Survival Horror + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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