How much revenue did Fishing on the Fly make?

$750–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fishing on the Fly sell?

Q: How many copies did Fishing on the Fly sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $750–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 11 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fishing on the Fly out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fishing on the Fly's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 823k–911k

best case 17.6M (Valheim)

Games like Fishing on the Fly

The middle of these games

≈ 823k–911k copies

≈ $7.8M–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Life Sim (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Valheim at ≈ 13.4M–21.9M copies, ≈ $110.9M–$298.2M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 131k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Fishing + Multiplayer + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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