How much revenue did SailSim make?

$782–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SailSim sell?

Q: How many copies did SailSim sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $782–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 23 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 SailSim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SailSim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 796k–4.1M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like SailSim

A typical game among these

≈ 796k–4.1M copies

≈ $11.4M–$40.4M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Realistic (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 1 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.7M–97.0M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	944k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Session: Skate Sim 2022	Est. copies ≈ 394k–640k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$17.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SkateboardingSports
Disney Dreamlight Valley 2023	Est. copies ≈ 617k–1.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.8M–$18.3M after Steam's cut $12.3M–$28.1M before Steam's cut	$39.99	25k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingLife Sim
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $45.0M–$120.9M after Steam's cut $81.7M–$186.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	197k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
SnowRunner 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.5M–$31.1M after Steam's cut $21.0M–$47.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	56k reviews Very Positive	SimulationAutomobile Sim
Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
Abiotic Factor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $14.2M–$38.2M after Steam's cut $25.8M–$58.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	59k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SurvivalOnline Co-Op
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers 2022	Est. copies ≈ 574k–933k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut $8.6M–$19.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	23k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationCrime