How much revenue did Call of the Wild: The Angler™ make?

$1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Call of the Wild: The Angler™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Call of the Wild: The Angler™ sell?

188k to 306k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 188k–306k; $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Mixed)

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 Call of the Wild: The Angler™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of the Wild: The Angler™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 83k–537k

best case 2.9M (Russian Fishing 4)

Games like Call of the Wild: The Angler™

The middle of these games

≈ 83k–537k copies

≈ $114k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Russian Fishing 4 at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 992 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 796 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fishing (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Simulation.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 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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Fishing Adventure 2019	Est. copies ≈ 49k–80k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $68k–$182k after Steam's cut $123k–$279k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	FishingSimulation
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Russian Fishing 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	90k reviews Mixed	FishingMultiplayer
Fishing Sim World®: Pro Tour 2018	Est. copies ≈ 36k–59k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $199k–$535k after Steam's cut $362k–$823k before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationFishing
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 803k–1.3M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$6.99	16k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
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