How much revenue did Captain! make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain! sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain! sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 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 Captain! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–42k

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Captain!

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–42k copies

≈ $283k–$311k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choose Your Own Adventure (4 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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 311 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry RPG + Management + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 185x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut $55.7M–$126.7M before the cut	$19.99	225k reviews Mixed	ManagementSingleplayer
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One 2022	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$85k before the cut	$9.99	300 reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRetro
There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $142k–$381k after Steam's cut $258k–$586k before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	FantasyHorror
Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $165k–$445k after Steam's cut $301k–$684k before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessArcade
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad 2025	Est. copies ≈ 197k–320k 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mixed	Online Co-OpMultiplayer
Antaria Online 2017	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	328 reviews Mixed	Early AccessJRPG
Spirit Realm 2024	Est. copies ≈ 34k–56k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $172k–$463k after Steam's cut $313k–$712k before the cut	$18.18	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessRPG
RONIN: Two Souls CHAPTER 1 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8k–12k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	310 reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldRPG