How much revenue did Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale make?

$29k–$77k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 169 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $29k–$77k after Steam's cut $52k–$119k before the cut; from 169 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 Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 214k–354k

best case 884k (UBOAT)

Games like Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale

The middle of these games

≈ 214k–354k copies

≈ $3.4M–$4.3M 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: UBOAT at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$14.9M after Steam's cut.

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 631 to 20k.

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 2015 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 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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