How much revenue did Critters for Sale make?

$129k–$348k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Critters for Sale sell?

Q: How many copies did Critters for Sale sell?

47k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–77k; $129k–$348k after Steam's cut $235k–$535k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Critters for Sale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Critters for Sale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–48k

best case 137k (Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End)

Games like Critters for Sale

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–48k copies

≈ $5k–$99k after Steam's cut

from ~318 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End at ≈ 105k–170k copies, ≈ $115k–$308k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 65 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 307.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $4.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 61 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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