How much revenue did Red Sea make?

$69–$184 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Sea sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Sea 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; $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 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 Red Sea and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 443k–688k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Red Sea

A typical game among these

≈ 443k–688k copies

≈ $3.8M–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and Real-Time with Pause (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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Terra Invicta 2026	Est. copies ≈ 247k–401k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Door Kickers 2014	Est. copies ≈ 563k–915k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	TacticalStrategy
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North 2025	Est. copies ≈ 339k–550k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	TacticalTop-Down
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 436k–709k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
Mechabellum 2024	Est. copies ≈ 485k–788k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	20k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMechs
Dune: Spice Wars 2023	Est. copies ≈ 337k–548k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before Steam's cut	$34.99	14k reviews Mostly Positive	ManagementSingleplayer
ShemHaMephorash 2023	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$8.99	36 reviews Positive	SimulationReal-Time with Pause