How much revenue did Fluffy Sailors make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fluffy Sailors sell?

Q: How many copies did Fluffy Sailors sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (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 Fluffy Sailors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fluffy Sailors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–29k

best case 541k (Pixel Piracy)

Games like Fluffy Sailors

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–29k copies

≈ $4k–$275k after Steam's cut

from ~236 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pixel Piracy at ≈ 412k–669k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 86 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 483.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Pirates (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Sandbox, priced around $15.
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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Pirate Patrol 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$4.99	50 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction RPG
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Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$683k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessArcade
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Pixel Piracy 2014	Est. copies ≈ 412k–669k 31x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeSandbox
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