How much revenue did Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails sell?

Q: How many copies did Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (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 Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–15k

best case 342k (The Typing of The Dead: Overkill)

Games like Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–15k copies

≈ $20k–$154k after Steam's cut

from ~363 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Typing of The Dead: Overkill at ≈ 260k–423k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 138 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 258.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (5 of 8) and On-Rails Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Typing + On-Rails Shooter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Typing + Zombies + Comedy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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