How much revenue did Crab Champions make?

$2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crab Champions sell?

Q: How many copies did Crab Champions sell?

770k to 1.3M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 770k–1.3M; $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.7M before the cut; from 31k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Crab Champions out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crab Champions's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 237k–669k

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Crab Champions

The middle of these games

≈ 237k–669k copies

≈ $2.6M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Looter Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Rogue-like + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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