How much revenue did WEBFISHING make?

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WEBFISHING sell?

Q: How many copies did WEBFISHING sell?

1.7M to 2.8M copies, based on its 70k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.8M; $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before Steam's cut; from 70k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 WEBFISHING and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WEBFISHING's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–3.2M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like WEBFISHING

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–3.2M copies

≈ $2.9M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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 Fishing (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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M 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 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 21k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fishing (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Pixel Graphics + Life Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 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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Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.5M–70.7M 36x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut $326.2M–$742.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
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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
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