How much revenue did Aye Aye, Captain make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aye Aye, Captain sell?

Q: How many copies did Aye Aye, Captain sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Aye Aye, Captain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aye Aye, Captain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–45k

best case 541k (Pixel Piracy)

Games like Aye Aye, Captain

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–45k copies

≈ $116k–$347k after Steam's cut

from ~789 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pixel Piracy at ≈ 412k–669k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M 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 341 reviews in their first month; the range was 189 to 544.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Pirates (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Sandbox, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Action Roguelike + Sandbox + Side Scroller; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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