How much revenue did Sealand Survivor make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sealand Survivor sell?

Q: How many copies did Sealand Survivor sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Sealand Survivor and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Sealand Survivor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.1M–19.4M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Sealand Survivor

A typical game among these

≈ 8.1M–19.4M copies

≈ $80.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut

from ~166k reviews

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

4 of the 7 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (3 of 7), 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (3 of 7) and Puzzle (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Savage Age 2024	Est. copies ≈ 546–887 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$14.99	22 reviews Positive	Puzzle Survival
War Solution - Casual Math Game 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $995–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$2.99	42 reviews Mostly Positive	EducationCasual
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut $24.7M–$56.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	156k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies
Timemelters 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before Steam's cut	$19.99	194 reviews Very Positive	StrategyFantasy
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $53.7M–$144.2M after Steam's cut $97.5M–$221.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	156k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut $101.1M–$230.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	176k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like