How much revenue did Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return make?

$60k–$161k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $60k–$161k after Steam's cut $109k–$248k before Steam's cut; from 293 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 Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–290k

best case 322k (TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children)

Games like Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–290k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children at ≈ 246k–399k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 122 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (7 of 8) and JRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Tactical RPG, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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 52 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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TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children 2020	Est. copies ≈ 246k–399k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
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