How much revenue did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut; from 27 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 Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.1M

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–2.1M copies

≈ $13.7M–$20.2M after Steam's cut

from ~57k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M 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 31k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22k to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (6 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $24. The breakout hits carry Space + Sandbox + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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