How much revenue did NavalArt make?

$412k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NavalArt sell?

Q: How many copies did NavalArt sell?

75k to 122k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 75k–122k; $412k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $749k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 NavalArt and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NavalArt's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 380k–1.2M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like NavalArt

A typical game among these

≈ 380k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.9M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Naval Combat (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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