How many copies did Anchor Up sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Anchor Up make?

Anchor Up is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Anchor Up?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 25–40; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Anchor Up and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anchor Up's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–700k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Anchor Up

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–700k copies

≈ $377k–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 300 reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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