How much revenue did The Sinking City Remastered make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sinking City Remastered sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sinking City Remastered sell?

139k to 225k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 139k–225k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut; from 6k 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 Sinking City Remastered out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sinking City Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–191k

best case 906k (Garfield Kart)

Games like The Sinking City Remastered

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–191k copies

≈ $3k–$984k after Steam's cut

from ~589 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Third-Person Shooter (3 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: Garfield Kart at ≈ 690k–1.1M copies, ≈ $947k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 278.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (3 of 8) and Horror (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cult Classic + Combat Racing, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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