How much revenue did Ready, Steady, Ship! make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ready, Steady, Ship! sell?

Q: How many copies did Ready, Steady, Ship! sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 131 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut; from 131 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 Ready, Steady, Ship! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ready, Steady, Ship!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–26k

best case 97k (Recycling Center Simulator)

Games like Ready, Steady, Ship!

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–26k copies

≈ $29k–$196k after Steam's cut

from ~516 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Recycling Center Simulator at ≈ 74k–120k copies, ≈ $405k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 163 reviews in their first month; the range was 49 to 661.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Time Management (8 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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