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How many copies did Holy Ship sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before Steam's cut
from 1 review (1 user reviews)
Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Holy Ship and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Holy Ship's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–24k
best case 317k (Zula Global)
Games like Holy Ship

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–24k copies

≈ $99k–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~569 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Battle Royale (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Zula Global at ≈ 242k–393k copies. 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 52 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 600.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Battle Royale (4 of 8) and 2D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry FPS + Massively Multiplayer + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 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 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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