How much revenue did Octodad: Dadliest Catch make?

$2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Octodad: Dadliest Catch sell?

Q: How many copies did Octodad: Dadliest Catch sell?

601k to 976k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 601k–976k; $2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Octodad: Dadliest Catch and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Octodad: Dadliest Catch's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–175k

best case 1.5M (Viscera Cleanup Detail)

Games like Octodad: Dadliest Catch

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–175k copies

≈ $10k–$765k after Steam's cut

from ~192 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Viscera Cleanup Detail at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 47.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (7 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Gore, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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