How much revenue did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 make?

$703k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 sell?

102k to 166k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 102k–166k; $703k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ship Graveyard Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 294k–2.8M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Ship Graveyard Simulator 2

The middle of these games

≈ 294k–2.8M copies

≈ $1.4M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M 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 412 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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