How many copies did Buy a Croquette! sell?

208k to 338k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Buy a Croquette! make?

Buy a Croquette! is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Buy a Croquette!?

Estimated owners: ≈ 208k–338k; from 8k 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 Buy a Croquette! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Buy a Croquette!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–2k

best case 50k (The Crooked Man)

Games like Buy a Croquette!

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–2k copies

≈ $2k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~59 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: The Crooked Man at ≈ 38k–62k copies, ≈ $32k–$85k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Investigation, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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Dead Dreams 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut	$7.99	67 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGMakerHorror
Death and Progress 2019	Est. copies ≈ 720–1k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $592–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut	$2.99	25 reviews Positive	ExplorationRPGMaker
Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 31k–51k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	638 reviews Very Positive	HorrorInvestigation
1bitHeart 2017	Est. copies ≈ 32k–51k 16x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before the cut	$2.99	920 reviews Very Positive	IndieCasual
The Walsingham Files - Chapter 1 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	59 reviews Very Positive	HorrorInvestigation
The Ghosts of Hackney Mills 2017	Est. copies ≈ 929–2k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$3.99	27 reviews Mixed	HorrorInvestigation
The Crooked Man 2018	Est. copies ≈ 38k–62k 21x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before the cut	$2.99	1k reviews Very Positive	2DHorror
MEMENTO 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before the cut	$5.99	85 reviews Very Positive	AdventureIndie