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How many copies did Ship Of Mist sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut
from 41 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 Ship Of Mist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ship Of Mist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–4.9M
best case 7.1M (Slime Rancher)
Games like Ship Of Mist

A typical game among these

≈ 3.8M–4.9M copies

≈ $32.6M–$73.7M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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 Story Rich (3 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: Slime Rancher at ≈ 5.4M–8.8M copies, ≈ $29.8M–$80.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (3 of 8) and Dark (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + Open World, priced around $20.
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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