How much revenue did High Seas, High Profits! make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did High Seas, High Profits! sell?

Q: How many copies did High Seas, High Profits! sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 173 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut; from 173 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 Seas, High Profits! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High Seas, High Profits!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 252k–724k

best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)

Games like High Seas, High Profits!

A typical game among these

≈ 252k–724k copies

≈ $2.5M–$10.2M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.9M 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 5k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Eco 2018	Est. copies ≈ 428k–696k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessSimulation
Railway Empire 2018	Est. copies ≈ 296k–480k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	10k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Supermarket Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M 9.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut $20.9M–$47.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	84k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
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