How much revenue did Crystal Rift make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crystal Rift sell?

Q: How many copies did Crystal Rift sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 133 reviews (Mixed)

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 Crystal Rift out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crystal Rift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–149k

best case 558k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like Crystal Rift

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–149k copies

≈ $19k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~354 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.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 75 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (7 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (6 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 2024, and 1 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 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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Legend of Grimrock 2 2014	Est. copies ≈ 228k–371k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before the cut	$23.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
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