How much revenue did Terror of the Seven Seas make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terror of the Seven Seas sell?

Q: How many copies did Terror of the Seven Seas sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 108 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before the cut; from 108 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 Terror of the Seven Seas out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terror of the Seven Seas's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 248k–1.1M

best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)

Games like Terror of the Seven Seas

The middle of these games

≈ 248k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Pirates (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2005 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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