How much revenue did Cave Digger VR make?

$58k–$156k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cave Digger VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Cave Digger VR sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 348 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$239k before the cut; from 348 reviews (Mostly 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 Cave Digger VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cave Digger VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 195–3k

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Cave Digger VR

The middle of these games

≈ 195–3k copies

≈ $6k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~62 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M 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 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 64.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and VR (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Sci-fi + Open World Survival Craft + Space; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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cyubeVR 2018	Est. copies ≈ 34k–56k 18x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $284k–$763k after Steam's cut $516k–$1.2M before the cut	$29.99	1k reviews Very Positive	VRBuilding
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.2M–28.0M 6686x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut $517.2M–$1176.7M before the cut	$59.99	415k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
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