How much revenue did Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship sell?

Q: How many copies did Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 37 reviews (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 Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–16k

best case 25k (Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG)

Games like Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–16k copies

≈ $5k–$91k after Steam's cut

from ~113 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dungeon Crawler (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: Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG at ≈ 19k–31k copies, ≈ $157k–$422k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 247.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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