How much revenue did Blazing Sails make?

$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blazing Sails sell?

Q: How many copies did Blazing Sails sell?

267k to 433k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 267k–433k; $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Blazing Sails and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blazing Sails's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 190k–3.1M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Blazing Sails

A typical game among these

≈ 190k–3.1M copies

≈ $1.7M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 623 to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
World of Warships 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	157k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayNaval Combat
Frozenheim 2022	Est. copies ≈ 97k–158k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $536k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $974k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mixed	EconomyResource Management
Ship of Fools 2022	Est. copies ≈ 156k–253k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $943k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$21.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Co-op Rogue-lite
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command 2022	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $908k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Very Positive	StrategySpace
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 32x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2018	Est. copies ≈ 201k–327k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Vehicular Combat4X
ATLAS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	43k reviews Mixed	SurvivalOpen World
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox