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How many copies did Sea of Solitude sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 52k–85k
$288k–$774k after Steam's cut $523k–$1.2M before the cut
from 2k 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 Sea of Solitude out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sea of Solitude's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–106k
best case 377k (Seen)
Games like Sea of Solitude

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–106k copies

≈ $78k–$189k after Steam's cut

from ~706 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Seen at ≈ 288k–467k copies, ≈ $78k–$210k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 217 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 911.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dark + Puzzle, priced around $1.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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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