How much revenue did Sailaway III make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sailaway III sell?

Q: How many copies did Sailaway III sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 170 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before the cut; from 170 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 Sailaway III out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sailaway III's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.1M

best case 2.9M (Russian Fishing 4)

Games like Sailaway III

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies

≈ $23.4M–$26.5M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Russian Fishing 4 at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Realistic (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Simulation.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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