How much revenue did Sailwind make?

$321k–$862k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sailwind sell?

Q: How many copies did Sailwind sell?

58k to 95k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–95k; $321k–$862k after Steam's cut $583k–$1.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 Sailwind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sailwind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–120k

best case 1.9M (Stormworks: Build and Rescue)

Games like Sailwind

The middle of these games

≈ 97k–120k copies

≈ $692k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Crafting (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Stormworks: Build and Rescue at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crafting (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Open World + Immersive Sim + Automation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 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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