How much revenue did Search for the Titanic make?

$136–$365 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Search for the Titanic sell?

Q: How many copies did Search for the Titanic sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$562 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews 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 Search for the Titanic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Search for the Titanic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 232k–1.1M

best case 15.2M (Subnautica)

Games like Search for the Titanic

A typical game among these

≈ 232k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.5M–$9.6M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Subnautica at ≈ 11.6M–18.8M copies, ≈ $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Underwater (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M 24x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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ABZU 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingAtmospheric
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