How much revenue did Crypt of the NecroDancer make?

$5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crypt of the NecroDancer sell?

Q: How many copies did Crypt of the NecroDancer sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.0M before the cut; from 26k 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 Crypt of the NecroDancer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crypt of the NecroDancer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–231k

best case 4.6M (Muse Dash)

Games like Crypt of the NecroDancer

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–231k copies

≈ $117k–$1.4M 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Muse Dash at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M 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 608 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 122 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rhythm (8 of 8) and Female Protagonist (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Sexual Content + Great Soundtrack + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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