How much revenue did Aquarium Designer make?

$83k–$223k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aquarium Designer sell?

Q: How many copies did Aquarium Designer sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $83k–$223k after Steam's cut $151k–$343k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Aquarium Designer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aquarium Designer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–690k

best case 1.5M (ABZU)

Games like Aquarium Designer

The middle of these games

≈ 92k–690k copies

≈ $604k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: ABZU at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Underwater + Exploration, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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