How much revenue did Docking Ships make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Docking Ships sell?

Q: How many copies did Docking Ships sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$84 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews 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 Docking Ships and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Docking Ships's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 874k–1.1M

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Docking Ships

A typical game among these

≈ 874k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.9M–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~27k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 15k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Logic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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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Return of the Obra Dinn 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveMystery
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Murders on the Yangtze River 2024	Est. copies ≈ 528k–858k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	21k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveAdventure
Dorfromantik 2022	Est. copies ≈ 735k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut	$13.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
Hasbro's BATTLESHIP 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $103k–$277k after Steam's cut $187k–$426k before Steam's cut	$12.49	987 reviews Very Positive	Board GameFamily Friendly
SokoChess 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$4.99	45 reviews Positive	ChessSokoban
Hidden Shapes Black Skull - Jigsaw Puzzle Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $584–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$1.99	43 reviews Positive	PuzzlePirates
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