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How many copies did Fishermurs sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–13k
$11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut
from 239 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fishermurs and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fishermurs's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15.7M–52.6M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Fishermurs

A typical game among these

≈ 15.7M–52.6M copies

≈ $95.3M–$362.2M after Steam's cut

from ~517k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Survival (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2006 to 2022, and none of them 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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