How much revenue did Crafting Dead make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crafting Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Crafting Dead sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 160 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 Crafting Dead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crafting Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.2M–6.4M

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Crafting Dead

The middle of these games

≈ 5.2M–6.4M copies

≈ $30.2M–$48.6M after Steam's cut

from ~78k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (8 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Survival + Open World + Open World Survival Craft; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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