How much revenue did Ready, Steady, Ship! make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ready, Steady, Ship! sell?

Q: How many copies did Ready, Steady, Ship! sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 130 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before the cut; from 130 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 Ready, Steady, Ship! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ready, Steady, Ship!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–25k

best case 96k (Recycling Center Simulator)

Games like Ready, Steady, Ship!

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–25k copies

≈ $29k–$194k after Steam's cut

from ~511 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Recycling Center Simulator at ≈ 73k–118k copies, ≈ $401k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 163 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 49 to 662.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Time Management (8 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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