How much revenue did The Captain is Dead make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Captain is Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did The Captain is Dead sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 83 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before the cut; from 83 reviews (Very Positive)

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 The Captain is Dead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Captain is Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–5.3M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like The Captain is Dead

The middle of these games

≈ 91k–5.3M copies

≈ $596k–$54.5M after Steam's cut

from ~69k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (7 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut $60.1M–$136.6M before the cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
Terraformers 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $509k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $926k–$2.1M before the cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SimulationProcedural Generation
Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.2M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.0M before the cut	$19.99	134k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
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Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.5M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Tharsis 2016	Est. copies ≈ 104k–170k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $431k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $783k–$1.8M before the cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Board GameSpace
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