How much revenue did Shark Assault Simulator make?

$925–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shark Assault Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Shark Assault Simulator sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $925–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 34 reviews (Mixed)

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 Shark Assault Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shark Assault Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521–651

best case 11k (VR Sailing)

Games like Shark Assault Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 521–651 copies

≈ $603–$50k after Steam's cut

from ~19 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: VR Sailing at ≈ 8k–14k copies, ≈ $18k–$50k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 117 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports, priced around $8.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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