How many copies did Fishing Planet sell?

2.7M to 4.3M copies, based on its 77k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Fishing Planet make?

Fishing Planet is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Fishing Planet?

Estimated owners: ≈ 2.7M–4.3M; from 77k 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 Fishing Planet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fishing Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.3M

best case 20.7M (Path of Exile)

Games like Fishing Planet

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–3.3M copies

≈ $6.8M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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 Open World (4 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: Path of Exile at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark Fantasy + Action RPG.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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HoloCure - Save the Fans! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsBullet Hell
Feed and Grow: Fish 2016	Est. copies ≈ 899k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before the cut	$14.99	22k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationUnderwater
Path of Exile 2013	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.6M 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	250k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayDark Fantasy
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.8M before the cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer
Russian Fishing 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	90k reviews Mixed	FishingMultiplayer
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 803k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$6.99	16k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut $18.5M–$42.1M before the cut	$24.99	26k reviews Very Positive	FlightSimulation
Train Simulator Classic 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.8M–$31.8M after Steam's cut $21.5M–$48.9M before the cut	$29.99	29k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationTrains