How much revenue did Abandon Ship make?

$268k–$720k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abandon Ship sell?

Q: How many copies did Abandon Ship sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $268k–$720k after Steam's cut $487k–$1.1M before the cut; from 1k 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 Abandon Ship out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abandon Ship's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–88k

best case 541k (Pixel Piracy)

Games like Abandon Ship

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–88k copies

≈ $18k–$714k after Steam's cut

from ~656 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pixel Piracy at ≈ 412k–669k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22 to 544.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Pirates (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Sandbox, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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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