How much revenue did Search for the Titanic make?

$136–$365 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Search for the Titanic sell?

Q: How many copies did Search for the Titanic sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$562 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Search for the Titanic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Search for the Titanic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228k–1.1M

best case 15.1M (Subnautica)

Games like Search for the Titanic

The middle of these games

≈ 228k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.5M–$9.6M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Subnautica at ≈ 11.5M–18.7M copies, ≈ $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Underwater (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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