How much revenue did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships sell?

Q: How many copies did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 264 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut; from 264 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 Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 279–5k

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

A typical game among these

≈ 279–5k copies

≈ $1k–$30k after Steam's cut

from ~22 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Gore (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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 136.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (3 of 8) and Pirates (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Physics + Blood; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, 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 38 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 14569x 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
Sea Dogs 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut	$11.99	172 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGAction
Behind Border Zone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut	$1.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	ActionAdventure
Sea Dogs: Caribbean Tales 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before Steam's cut	$11.99	139 reviews Mixed	RPGAction
Sail and Sacrifice 2019	Est. copies ≈ 634–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$5.99	22 reviews Mostly Negative	ActionIndie
Pirate Survival Fantasy Shooter 2019	Est. copies ≈ 202–328 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $555–$1k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$9.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	ViolentAction
Spirit Animal Survival 2026	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 6.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut	$19.99	136 reviews Mixed	Early AccessSurvival
TIME TO HUNT 2022	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Battle RoyaleAction