How much revenue did The Curse Of Yendor make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Curse Of Yendor sell?

Q: How many copies did The Curse Of Yendor sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before the cut; from 75 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 The Curse Of Yendor out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Curse Of Yendor's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–14k

best case 63k (Hack, Slash, Loot)

Games like The Curse Of Yendor

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–14k copies

≈ $4k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~223 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hack, Slash, Loot at ≈ 48k–78k copies, ≈ $79k–$211k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 52 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 160.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Traditional Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2026, 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 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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