How much revenue did Castle Crashers® make?

$36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castle Crashers® sell?

Q: How many copies did Castle Crashers® sell?

8.9M to 14.4M copies, based on its 140k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8.9M–14.4M; $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut $66.5M–$151.2M before the cut; from 140k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Castle Crashers® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castle Crashers®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.5M–29.6M

best case 128.5M (Terraria)

Games like Castle Crashers®

The middle of these games

≈ 6.5M–29.6M copies

≈ $25.0M–$128.3M after Steam's cut

from ~403k 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 Survival (4 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: Terraria at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M copies, ≈ $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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Stick Fight: The Game 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–7.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.5M before the cut	$4.99	125k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerFunny
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 97.9M–159.1M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut $489.0M–$1112.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.5M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
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Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
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