How much revenue did Open Ocean make?

$32–$85 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Open Ocean sell?

Q: How many copies did Open Ocean sell?

58 to 94 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58–94; $32–$85 after Steam's cut $58–$131 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Open Ocean out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Open Ocean's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 301–2k

best case 5k (Seashell)

Games like Open Ocean

The middle of these games

≈ 301–2k copies

≈ $408–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~26 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Nature (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Seashell at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $4k–$11k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 21 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Nature (4 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Nature + Collectathon, priced around $4.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of your 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 36 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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