How much revenue did ABZU make?

$6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ABZU sell?

Q: How many copies did ABZU sell?

1.1M to 1.9M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.9M; $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.1M before the cut; from 28k 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 ABZU out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ABZU's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–70k

best case 5.3M (DAVE THE DIVER)

Games like ABZU

The middle of these games

≈ 57k–70k copies

≈ $340k–$479k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: DAVE THE DIVER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.0M–$59.2M 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 796 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 239 to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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