How much revenue did The Sinking City Remastered make?

$1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sinking City Remastered sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sinking City Remastered sell?

143k to 232k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 143k–232k; $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 The Sinking City Remastered and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sinking City Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–192k

best case 907k (Garfield Kart)

Games like The Sinking City Remastered

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–192k copies

≈ $3k–$984k after Steam's cut

from ~589 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Third-Person Shooter (3 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: Garfield Kart at ≈ 691k–1.1M copies, ≈ $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 277.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (3 of 8) and Horror (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cult Classic + Combat Racing, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, and 1 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 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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Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M 24x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound 2020	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	BasketballTeam-Based
Broken Lines 2020	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $119k–$321k after Steam's cut $217k–$493k before Steam's cut	$24.99	700 reviews Mostly Positive	WarSingleplayer
Paw Patrol: On A Roll! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $217k–$495k before Steam's cut	$29.99	477 reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyPlatformer
The Bolt Age 2021	Est. copies ≈ 198–322 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut	$24.99	8 reviews 8 user reviews	Third-Person ShooterSteampunk
Deadly Cosmic 2021	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $155–$417 after Steam's cut $282–$642 before Steam's cut	$0.99	23 reviews Positive	Survival HorrorRetro
Silent Hill Homecoming 2008	Est. copies ≈ 254k–413k 6.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	4k reviews Mixed	HorrorAdventure
Tales of The Nightmares™ Episode One 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$4.50	61 reviews Very Positive	Dark FantasyAdventure