How much revenue did Atlantic Fleet make?

$180k–$484k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Atlantic Fleet sell?

Q: How many copies did Atlantic Fleet sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $180k–$484k after Steam's cut $327k–$744k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Atlantic Fleet and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Atlantic Fleet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 220k–354k

best case 890k (UBOAT)

Games like Atlantic Fleet

A typical game among these

≈ 220k–354k copies

≈ $3.4M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

Best case: UBOAT at ≈ 678k–1.1M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 630 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Naval (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + World War II, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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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