How much revenue did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human make?

$60k–$161k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human sell?

Q: How many copies did The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 525 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $60k–$161k after Steam's cut $109k–$248k before the cut; from 525 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 The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–1.3M

best case 2.6M (Rain World)

Games like The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

The middle of these games

≈ 149k–1.3M copies

≈ $948k–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Metroidvania (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: Rain World at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $13.4M–$36.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 982 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Exploration, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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