How much revenue did Octodad: Dadliest Catch make?

$2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Octodad: Dadliest Catch sell?

Q: How many copies did Octodad: Dadliest Catch sell?

599k to 974k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 599k–974k; $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Very 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 Octodad: Dadliest Catch out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Octodad: Dadliest Catch's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–175k

best case 1.5M (Viscera Cleanup Detail)

Games like Octodad: Dadliest Catch

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–175k copies

≈ $10k–$765k after Steam's cut

from ~188 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Viscera Cleanup Detail at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23 to 47.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (7 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Gore, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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