How much revenue did Ocean Punk make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ocean Punk sell?

Q: How many copies did Ocean Punk sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 170 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before Steam's cut; from 170 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 Ocean Punk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ocean Punk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 609k–1.9M

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Ocean Punk

A typical game among these

≈ 609k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.9M–$22.6M after Steam's cut

from ~42k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Colony Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, 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 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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They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	52k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingColony Sim
Timberborn 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.0M–$26.9M after Steam's cut $18.2M–$41.4M before Steam's cut	$34.99	42k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	City BuilderVoxel
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Endzone - A World Apart 2021	Est. copies ≈ 249k–405k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	City Builder Survival
Buoyancy 2019	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $85k–$230k after Steam's cut $155k–$354k before Steam's cut	$12.99	831 reviews Mixed	Colony SimStrategy
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Cutthroat Cove 2021	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut	$10.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	ExplorationImmersive Sim
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