How many copies did King of Crabs sell?

226k to 367k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did King of Crabs make?

King of Crabs is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is King of Crabs?

Estimated owners: ≈ 226k–367k; from 9k 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 King of Crabs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including King of Crabs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 893k–4.8M

best case 15.7M (Palworld)

Games like King of Crabs

The middle of these games

≈ 893k–4.8M copies

≈ $16.1M–$101.9M after Steam's cut

from ~52k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.0M–19.4M copies, ≈ $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 3 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 52 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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