How much revenue did Dread Nautical make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dread Nautical sell?

Q: How many copies did Dread Nautical sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 33 reviews (Mostly 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 Dread Nautical out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dread Nautical's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 560k–2.3M

best case 8.8M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like Dread Nautical

The middle of these games

≈ 560k–2.3M copies

≈ $3.0M–$12.5M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Horror (3 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: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (3 of 8) and Card Game (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Dark Fantasy, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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