How much revenue did Abandon Ship make?

$268k–$721k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abandon Ship sell?

Q: How many copies did Abandon Ship sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $268k–$721k after Steam's cut $488k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Abandon Ship and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abandon Ship's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–89k

best case 541k (Pixel Piracy)

Games like Abandon Ship

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–89k copies

≈ $18k–$725k after Steam's cut

from ~659 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pixel Piracy at ≈ 412k–669k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 544.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Pirates (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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