How much revenue did Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands make?

$197k–$529k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands sell?

Q: How many copies did Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 994 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–47k; $197k–$529k after Steam's cut $358k–$814k before Steam's cut; from 994 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 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–864k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–864k copies

≈ $1.4M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (8 of 8) and Crafting (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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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