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How many copies did Blind Fishes sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$190–$511 after Steam's cut $345–$786 before Steam's cut
from 14 reviews (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 Blind Fishes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blind Fishes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–617k
best case 2.1M (Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun)
Games like Blind Fishes

A typical game among these

≈ 155k–617k copies

≈ $849k–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $17.6M–$47.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 961 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Tactical (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Stealth + Tactical, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2008 to 2026, 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 79 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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