How much revenue did War on the Sea make?

$890k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did War on the Sea sell?

Q: How many copies did War on the Sea sell?

81k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–131k; $890k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 War on the Sea and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including War on the Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–4.0M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like War on the Sea

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–4.0M copies

≈ $11.9M–$18.9M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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 War (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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share War (4 of 8) and Military (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 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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World of Warships 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	157k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayNaval Combat
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