How much revenue did Silent Hunter® III make?

$456k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Silent Hunter® III sell?

Q: How many copies did Silent Hunter® III sell?

166k to 270k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 166k–270k; $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $830k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k 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 Silent Hunter® III out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Silent Hunter® III's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 178k–237k

best case 7.1M (World of Warships)

Games like Silent Hunter® III

The middle of these games

≈ 178k–237k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: World of Warships at ≈ 5.4M–8.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 625 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Naval (7 of 8) and Naval Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Naval Combat + Co-op. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Tactical + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, 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 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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