How much revenue did Wooden Ocean make?

$35k–$93k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wooden Ocean sell?

Q: How many copies did Wooden Ocean sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 254 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $35k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$143k before Steam's cut; from 254 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 Wooden Ocean and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wooden Ocean's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–19k

best case 93k (BLACKTAIL)

Games like Wooden Ocean

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–19k copies

≈ $3k–$170k after Steam's cut

from ~59 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: BLACKTAIL at ≈ 71k–115k copies, ≈ $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 534.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Action-Adventure, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 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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Animyst 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	458 reviews Very Positive	Dark FantasyDemons
Blessed Surface 2019	Est. copies ≈ 922–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	32 reviews Mixed	Metroidvania Bullet Hell
BLACKTAIL 2022	Est. copies ≈ 71k–115k 49x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Story RichAction-Adventure
Witch Strandings 2022	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut	$12.99	40 reviews Mostly Positive	Multiple EndingsAtmospheric
Onirike 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before Steam's cut	$14.99	77 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
Witch Stories 2025	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $442–$1k after Steam's cut $803–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	13 reviews Positive	RPGCRPG
Trench Tales 2025	Est. copies ≈ 18k–28k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $120k–$324k after Steam's cut $219k–$498k before Steam's cut	$24.99	706 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessPvE
Zorro and Zedd 2025	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$7.99	15 reviews Mostly Positive	Adventure3D Platformer