How much revenue did Victory At Sea make?

$71k–$192k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Victory At Sea sell?

Q: How many copies did Victory At Sea sell?

32k to 53k copies, based on its 579 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–53k; $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$295k before Steam's cut; from 579 reviews (Mostly 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 Victory At Sea and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Victory At Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 101k–217k

best case 214k (Cold Waters)

Games like Victory At Sea

A typical game among these

≈ 101k–217k copies

≈ $819k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Cold Waters at ≈ 163k–265k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Naval (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Naval Combat, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2021, 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 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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