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How many copies did Ocean Pressure sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 719–1k
$591–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut
from 29 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Ocean Pressure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ocean Pressure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k
best case 363k (Iron Lung)
Games like Ocean Pressure

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $6k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~93 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: Iron Lung at ≈ 277k–450k copies, ≈ $608k–$1.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 679.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Underwater (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Underwater, priced around $16.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 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 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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