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How many copies did CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$62–$164 after Steam's cut $112–$252 before the cut
from 1 reviews (1 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–10k
best case 46k (Pixel Sketch)
Games like CrossAbout: Crosswords in Reverse (300★)

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–10k copies

≈ $3k–$29k after Steam's cut

from ~149 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Pixel Sketch at ≈ 35k–56k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 28 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 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 Education (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Education + Word Game. The breakout hits carry PvP + Experimental + 3D Vision; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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SpellingEducation

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