How much revenue did World of Diving make?

World of Diving is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did World of Diving sell?

Q: How many copies did World of Diving sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 765 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; from 765 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.5M

best case 12.3M (Raft)

Games like World of Diving

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.5M copies

≈ $8.1M–$13.2M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (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: Raft at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.7M–$139.0M 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 39k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 182k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Underwater (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Building + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.7M–$139.0M after Steam's cut $94.0M–$213.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	379k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
ABZU 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingAtmospheric
Maneater 2021	Est. copies ≈ 669k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldDark Humor
DAVE THE DIVER 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M 6.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.8M after Steam's cut $40.4M–$91.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	163k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
Feed and Grow: Fish 2016	Est. copies ≈ 906k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	22k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationUnderwater
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$6.99	17k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
Stranded Deep 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.6M after Steam's cut $11.9M–$27.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	48k reviews Mostly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Depth 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.1M–$27.3M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$42.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Very Positive	ShooterMultiplayer