How many copies did Beneath The Surface sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 561 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beneath The Surface make?

Beneath The Surface is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beneath The Surface?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 17k–28k; from 561 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 Beneath The Surface and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beneath The Surface's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–1.0M

best case 3.0M (Russian Fishing 4)

Games like Beneath The Surface

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–1.0M copies

≈ $709k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Russian Fishing 4 at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fishing (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ultimate Fishing Simulator® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 279k–453k 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	3DAmerica
Russian Fishing 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 34x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Mixed	FishingMultiplayer
SEGA Bass Fishing 2011	Est. copies ≈ 73k–118k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	FishingSimulation
Fishing Planet 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M 29x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Very Positive	FishingFree to Play
Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR 2019	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	595 reviews Very Positive	FishingSimulation
Professional Fishing 2018	Est. copies ≈ 130k–211k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	FishingFree to Play
Just Fishing 2017	Est. copies ≈ 32k–51k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	919 reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFishing
Fishing Adventure VR 2022	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$11.99	26 reviews Mostly Negative	SportsFishing