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How many copies did Saber Ship sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Only 2 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 Saber Ship and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Saber Ship's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–62k
best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)
Games like Saber Ship

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–62k copies

≈ $85k–$494k after Steam's cut

from ~562 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M 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 191 reviews in their first month; the range was 165 to 244.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Music (8 of 8) and Rhythm (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Moddable + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2022, and none of them 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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