How much revenue did Insaniquarium Deluxe make?

$595k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insaniquarium Deluxe sell?

Q: How many copies did Insaniquarium Deluxe sell?

434k to 705k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 434k–705k; $595k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Insaniquarium Deluxe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insaniquarium Deluxe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–7.3M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like Insaniquarium Deluxe

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–7.3M copies

≈ $6.9M–$41.0M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fishing (2 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: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fishing (2 of 8) and Shooter (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, 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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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M 3.2x vs typical 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
DAVE THE DIVER 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.8M after Steam's cut $40.4M–$91.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	163k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
Everlasting Summer 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated 2020	Est. copies ≈ 452k–735k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	18k reviews Very Positive	3D PlatformerAdventure
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Cornflower Corbin 2017	Est. copies ≈ 172–280 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	5 reviews 5 user reviews	ActionIndie
Disney•Pixar Finding Nemo 2015	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	221 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureAction
Sleeping Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$85k before Steam's cut	$4.99	358 reviews Mostly Negative	CasualIndie