How much revenue did Aquarium Designer make?

$83k–$224k 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–$224k after Steam's cut $151k–$345k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Aquarium Designer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aquarium Designer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–692k

best case 1.5M (ABZU)

Games like Aquarium Designer

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–692k copies

≈ $608k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: ABZU at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Underwater + Exploration, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, 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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