How much revenue did Ship Of Mist make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ship Of Mist sell?

Q: How many copies did Ship Of Mist sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 41 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 Ship Of Mist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ship Of Mist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–4.9M

best case 7.1M (Slime Rancher)

Games like Ship Of Mist

The middle of these games

≈ 3.8M–4.9M copies

≈ $32.5M–$73.2M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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 Story Rich (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: Slime Rancher at ≈ 5.4M–8.8M copies, ≈ $29.6M–$79.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (3 of 8) and Dark (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Open World, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 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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