How much revenue did Megaquarium make?

$788k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Megaquarium sell?

Q: How many copies did Megaquarium sell?

115k to 186k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 115k–186k; $788k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Megaquarium out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Megaquarium's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–18.7M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Megaquarium

The middle of these games

≈ 7.6M–18.7M copies

≈ $88.8M–$282.1M after Steam's cut

from ~292k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Casual + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, and none of them 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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