How much revenue did Crunch Element make?

$80k–$214k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crunch Element sell?

Q: How many copies did Crunch Element sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 585 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $80k–$214k after Steam's cut $145k–$330k before the cut; from 585 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.4M

best case 5.7M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like Crunch Element

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–3.4M copies

≈ $16.0M–$44.0M after Steam's cut

from ~47k 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.

Best case: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.3M–7.1M copies, ≈ $23.9M–$64.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (6 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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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