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How many copies did Crossword City Chronicles sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$646–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 19 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 Crossword City Chronicles out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crossword City Chronicles's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–7k
best case 12k (You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana)
Games like Crossword City Chronicles

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–7k copies

≈ $2k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~108 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana at ≈ 9k–14k copies, ≈ $24k–$65k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 34.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Word Game (8 of 8) and Spelling (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Education + Typing, priced around $10.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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