How much revenue did Captain! make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain! sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain! sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–43k

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Captain!

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–43k copies

≈ $283k–$316k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.4M 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 310 reviews in their first month; the range was 29 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry RPG + Management + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 186x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.4M after Steam's cut $55.7M–$126.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	225k reviews Mixed	ManagementSingleplayer
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One 2022	Est. copies ≈ 8k–12k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before Steam's cut	$9.99	307 reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRetro
There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $142k–$382k after Steam's cut $259k–$588k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	FantasyHorror
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$683k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessArcade
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad 2025	Est. copies ≈ 200k–326k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mixed	Online Co-OpMultiplayer
Antaria Online 2017	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	327 reviews Mixed	Early AccessJRPG
Spirit Realm 2024	Est. copies ≈ 35k–58k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $177k–$477k after Steam's cut $322k–$733k before Steam's cut	$18.18	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessRPG
RONIN: Two Souls CHAPTER 1 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	311 reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldRPG