How much revenue did Sea of Survivors make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sea of Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Sea of Survivors sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 418 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut; from 418 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 Sea of Survivors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sea of Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 999k–5.1M

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Sea of Survivors

A typical game among these

≈ 999k–5.1M copies

≈ $3.6M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
20 Minutes Till Dawn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 724k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $993k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Roboquest 2023	Est. copies ≈ 608k–989k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction Roguelike
Risk of Rain 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.2M 8.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut $109.5M–$249.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	353k reviews Very Positive	Third-Person ShooterAction Roguelike
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	49k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Crab Champions 2023	Est. copies ≈ 774k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	31k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike