How much revenue did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human make?

$60k–$162k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human sell?

Q: How many copies did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 527 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $60k–$162k after Steam's cut $110k–$249k before Steam's cut; from 527 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 The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 150k–1.3M

best case 2.6M (Rain World)

Games like The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

A typical game among these

≈ 150k–1.3M copies

≈ $957k–$12.4M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Metroidvania (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: Rain World at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 981 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Exploration, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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UNSIGHTED 2021	Est. copies ≈ 56k–90k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $305k–$821k after Steam's cut $555k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
FAR: Changing Tides 2022	Est. copies ≈ 142k–230k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $778k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericAction-Adventure
Darksiders™ 2010	Est. copies ≈ 818k–1.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	13k reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	46k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
Big Fish 2025	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before Steam's cut	$4.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	Metroidvania2D Platformer
Sunkenland 2023	Est. copies ≈ 595k–967k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	24k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessOpen World Survival Craft
Rain World 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	58k reviews Very Positive	DifficultAtmospheric
HAAK 2022	Est. copies ≈ 87k–142k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $432k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $786k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$17.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerMetroidvania