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How many copies did The Ship: Murder Party sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 376k–611k
$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut
from 6k 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 The Ship: Murder Party out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Ship: Murder Party's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 164k–288k
best case 404k (Amnesia: The Bunker)
Games like The Ship: Murder Party

The middle of these games

≈ 164k–288k copies

≈ $930k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Amnesia: The Bunker at ≈ 308k–500k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 43 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Stealth (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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