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How many copies did Murky Divers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 132k–214k
$326k–$877k after Steam's cut $593k–$1.3M before the cut
from 5k 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 Murky Divers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Murky Divers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15.4M–28.2M
best case 34.7M (Apex Legends™)
Games like Murky Divers

The middle of these games

≈ 15.4M–28.2M copies

≈ $90.4M–$171.5M after Steam's cut

from ~454k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.4M–43.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 76k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 40k to 144k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Battle Royale (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with First-Person, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Free to Play + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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2.3x vs typical
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