How much revenue did Monster Crawl make?

$927–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monster Crawl sell?

Q: How many copies did Monster Crawl sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $927–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 17 reviews (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 Monster Crawl out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monster Crawl's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–81k

best case 91k (Army of Ruin)

Games like Monster Crawl

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–81k copies

≈ $194k–$485k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Army of Ruin at ≈ 69k–112k copies, ≈ $152k–$409k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 865 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 160 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $8.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 2 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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Army of Ruin 2023	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $152k–$409k after Steam's cut $276k–$629k before the cut	$7.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
ANVIL 2023	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $374k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $680k–$1.5M before the cut	$24.99	2k reviews Mixed	Top-Down ShooterAction Roguelike
Larva Mortus 2009	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $65k–$174k after Steam's cut $118k–$268k before the cut	$4.99	746 reviews Mostly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
God's Trigger 2019	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $119k–$320k after Steam's cut $217k–$493k before the cut	$14.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Top-Down ShooterAction Roguelike
X Invader 2024	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before the cut	$4.99	579 reviews Mostly Positive	Shoot 'Em UpArena Shooter
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot 2024	Est. copies ≈ 42k–69k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $58k–$157k after Steam's cut $106k–$241k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
SNAKE FARM 2023	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before the cut	$2.99	441 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Westale: Peelgrimage 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$67k before the cut	$4.99	479 reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell