How many copies did Russian Fishing 4 sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 91k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Russian Fishing 4 make?

Russian Fishing 4 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Russian Fishing 4?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; from 91k 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 Russian Fishing 4 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Russian Fishing 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 907k–1.2M

best case 20.7M (Path of Exile)

Games like Russian Fishing 4

A typical game among these

≈ 907k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.6M–$9.9M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (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: Path of Exile at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Simulation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Massively Multiplayer + MMORPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Fishing Planet 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Very Positive	FishingFree to Play
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M 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
Path of Exile 2013	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	250k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayDark Fantasy
PickCrafter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 246k–400k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Very Positive	MiningIdler
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M 5.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer
Feed and Grow: Fish 2016	Est. copies ≈ 906k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	22k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationUnderwater
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$6.99	17k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.5M after Steam's cut $18.6M–$42.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	27k reviews Very Positive	FlightSimulation