How much revenue did World Ship Simulator make?

$62k–$165k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did World Ship Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did World Ship Simulator sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 269 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $62k–$165k after Steam's cut $112k–$254k before the cut; from 269 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left World Ship Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World Ship Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–90k

best case 10.3M (Schedule I)

Games like World Ship Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–90k copies

≈ $381k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $43.0M–$115.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 489 to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Open World, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Driving + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 38 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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