How much revenue did Even the Ocean make?

$65k–$175k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Even the Ocean sell?

Q: How many copies did Even the Ocean sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 284 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $65k–$175k after Steam's cut $118k–$269k before Steam's cut; from 284 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 Even the Ocean and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Even the Ocean's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342k–977k

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Even the Ocean

A typical game among these

≈ 342k–977k copies

≈ $2.3M–$24.1M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 39 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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