How many copies did Pancake Sailor sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 188 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Pancake Sailor make?

Pancake Sailor is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Pancake Sailor?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 5k–8k; from 188 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 Pancake Sailor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pancake Sailor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–671k

best case 2.0M (Stormworks: Build and Rescue)

Games like Pancake Sailor

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–671k copies

≈ $648k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (4 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: Stormworks: Build and Rescue at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Pirates (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Base-Building, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	60k reviews Very Positive	SandboxBase-Building
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt 2016	Est. copies ≈ 194k–315k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayNaval Combat
Pixel Piracy 2014	Est. copies ≈ 412k–669k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeSandbox
Fishing: Barents Sea 2018	Est. copies ≈ 81k–132k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $558k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFishing
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$6.99	17k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
Escape The Pacific 2018	Est. copies ≈ 23k–38k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $95k–$257k after Steam's cut $174k–$395k before Steam's cut	$14.99	762 reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Maelstrom 2019	Est. copies ≈ 74k–121k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayPirates
Salt 2018	Est. copies ≈ 68k–111k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $282k–$759k after Steam's cut $513k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Open World Survival CraftOpen World