How much revenue did Fishing: Barents Sea make?

$558k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fishing: Barents Sea sell?

Q: How many copies did Fishing: Barents Sea sell?

81k to 132k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–132k; $558k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut; from 3k 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: Barents Sea out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fishing: Barents Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–3.2M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Fishing: Barents Sea

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies

≈ $16.4M–$19.2M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Farming Sim + Life Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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