How much revenue did Raiders of the North Sea make?

$31k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Raiders of the North Sea sell?

Q: How many copies did Raiders of the North Sea sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 265 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $31k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before Steam's cut; from 265 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 Raiders of the North Sea and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Raiders of the North Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–99k

best case 108k (Drop Duchy)

Games like Raiders of the North Sea

A typical game among these

≈ 67k–99k copies

≈ $489k–$625k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Drop Duchy at ≈ 82k–134k copies, ≈ $339k–$911k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 571 reviews in their first month; the range was 326 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (7 of 8) and Tabletop (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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