How much revenue did Ship of Fools make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ship of Fools sell?

Q: How many copies did Ship of Fools sell?

155k to 251k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 155k–251k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before the cut; from 6k 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 Ship of Fools out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ship of Fools's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–16.0M

best case 29.6M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like Ship of Fools

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–16.0M copies

≈ $27.2M–$141.0M after Steam's cut

from ~154k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.7M copies, ≈ $93.0M–$250.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 83k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 110k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 79 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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