How much revenue did Cramped Room of Death make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cramped Room of Death sell?

Q: How many copies did Cramped Room of Death sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before the cut; from 72 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 Cramped Room of Death out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Cramped Room of Death's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 926k–1.2M

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like Cramped Room of Death

The middle of these games

≈ 926k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.2M–$8.9M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

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

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 6), 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: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $13.9M–$37.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 54 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 6) and Point & Click (2 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Political + Simulation + Dystopian ; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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 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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