How much revenue did Aquascapers make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aquascapers sell?

Q: How many copies did Aquascapers sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 93 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before the cut; from 93 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 Aquascapers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aquascapers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.8M

best case 3.2M (Supermarket Together)

Games like Aquascapers

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.8M copies

≈ $14.4M–$20.2M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: Supermarket Together at ≈ 2.4M–4.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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