How much revenue did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 make?

$710k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 sell?

103k to 168k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 103k–168k; $710k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ship Graveyard Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285k–1.3M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Ship Graveyard Simulator 2

A typical game among these

≈ 285k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.4M–$14.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 411 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (8 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Realistic + Driving + Destruction; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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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