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How many copies did The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 9k–15k
$39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$159k before Steam's cut
from 377 reviews (Mostly 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 Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 71k–112k
best case 3.5M (Fishing Planet)
Games like The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing

A typical game among these

≈ 71k–112k copies

≈ $307k–$561k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Fishing Planet at ≈ 2.7M–4.3M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Fishing (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Realistic, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Realistic + Trains; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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