How much revenue did Sail and Sacrifice make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sail and Sacrifice sell?

Q: How many copies did Sail and Sacrifice sell?

634 to 1k copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 634–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 22 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Sail and Sacrifice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sail and Sacrifice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–5.0M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Sail and Sacrifice

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–5.0M copies

≈ $17.0M–$48.1M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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 Sandbox (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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the range was 38k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (4 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	321k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
Hell Let Loose 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.1M–$137.3M after Steam's cut $92.9M–$211.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	150k reviews Very Positive	ShooterRealistic
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $28.2M–$75.9M after Steam's cut $51.3M–$116.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	65k reviews Very Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Graveyard Keeper 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut $17.1M–$38.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	56k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsCrafting
Blade and Sorcery 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	62k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRSwordplay
Pavlov 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	41k reviews Very Positive	VRShooter
BONEWORKS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut $15.8M–$35.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	36k reviews Very Positive	VRPhysics