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How many copies did Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 20k–33k
$56k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$230k before the cut
from 320 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–215k
best case 884k (UBOAT)
Games like Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions

The middle of these games

≈ 91k–215k copies

≈ $703k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: UBOAT at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$14.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Naval (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + World War II, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 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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