How much revenue did The Keep make?

$27k–$72k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Keep sell?

Q: How many copies did The Keep sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 190 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before the cut; from 190 reviews (Mostly 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 The Keep out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Keep's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–62k

best case 558k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like The Keep

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–62k copies

≈ $35k–$534k after Steam's cut

from ~396 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 425k–691k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2019, 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 36 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Legend of Grimrock 2012	Est. copies ≈ 425k–691k 17x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before the cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Dungeon Of Dragon Knight 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$142k before the cut	$11.99	361 reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
Stonekeep 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$86k before the cut	$14.99	146 reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
Vaporum 2017	Est. copies ≈ 37k–59k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $201k–$541k after Steam's cut $366k–$832k before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon Crawler CRPG
Tower of Time 2018	Est. copies ≈ 81k–131k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $554k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Real Time TacticsReal-Time
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$163k before the cut	$7.99	431 reviews Mostly Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
A Healer Only Lives Twice 2016	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before the cut	$4.99	241 reviews Very Positive	StrategyIndie
Skeletal Dance Party 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut	$8.99	70 reviews Very Positive	PhysicsVillain Protagonist