How much revenue did Caveman Craig make?

$11k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Caveman Craig sell?

Q: How many copies did Caveman Craig sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $11k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before the cut; from 157 reviews (Very 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 Caveman Craig out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Caveman Craig's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–13.7M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Caveman Craig

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–13.7M copies

≈ $22.1M–$52.9M after Steam's cut

from ~117k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 67k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 76 to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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 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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