How much revenue did The Captain is Dead make?

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

How many copies did The Captain is Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did The Captain is Dead sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 83 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut; from 83 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Captain is Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Captain is Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–5.3M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like The Captain is Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–5.3M copies

≈ $596k–$54.7M after Steam's cut

from ~69k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (7 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.1M–$89.1M after Steam's cut $60.2M–$137.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
Terraformers 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SimulationProcedural Generation
Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.3M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	135k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut $526.0M–$1196.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	422k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut $51.9M–$118.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Tharsis 2016	Est. copies ≈ 105k–170k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $431k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $784k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Board GameSpace
Space Betrayers 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $172–$455 after Steam's cut $312–$700 before Steam's cut	$24.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessSocial Deduction
Blink Planets 2022	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $551–$1k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$8.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessStrategy