How much revenue did High Sea Saga DX make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did High Sea Saga DX sell?

Q: How many copies did High Sea Saga DX sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 541 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$137k before Steam's cut; from 541 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 High Sea Saga DX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High Sea Saga DX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 265k–556k

best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)

Games like High Sea Saga DX

A typical game among these

≈ 265k–556k copies

≈ $1.5M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Auto Battler (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: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.9M–$80.5M after Steam's cut. 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 37 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Flight + Realistic + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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