How much revenue did Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance make?

$71k–$192k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance sell?

Q: How many copies did Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before the cut; from 1k 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 Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–4.7M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–4.7M copies

≈ $14.4M–$33.5M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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 Female Protagonist (3 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (3 of 8) and Hand-drawn (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.2M–31.3M 8.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut $144.2M–$328.1M before the cut	$14.99	559k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut $55.7M–$126.7M before the cut	$19.99	225k reviews Mixed	ManagementSingleplayer
GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
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OMORI 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.8M before the cut	$19.99	88k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Story Rich
Sally Face - Episode One 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before the cut	$2.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story Rich Psychological Horror
Nine Sols 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.7M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.1M before the cut	$29.99	45k reviews Very Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
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