How much revenue did Virtual Sailor NG make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Virtual Sailor NG sell?

Q: How many copies did Virtual Sailor NG sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 136 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $67k–$153k before Steam's cut; from 136 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 Virtual Sailor NG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virtual Sailor NG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–3.9M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like Virtual Sailor NG

A typical game among these

≈ 2.8M–3.9M copies

≈ $37.1M–$57.2M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: VRChat at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies. 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 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime. The breakout hits carry Anime + Memes + VR; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

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