How much revenue did Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic make?

$439k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic sell?

Q: How many copies did Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic sell?

160k to 260k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 160k–260k; $439k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $798k–$1.8M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–215k

best case 884k (UBOAT)

Games like Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic

The middle of these games

≈ 69k–215k copies

≈ $380k–$3.5M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: UBOAT at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$14.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Naval (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + World War II, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 2 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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