How many copies did Beneath The Surface sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 559 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beneath The Surface make?

Beneath The Surface is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beneath The Surface?

Estimated owners: ≈ 17k–28k; from 559 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 Beneath The Surface out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beneath The Surface's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–1.0M

best case 2.9M (Russian Fishing 4)

Games like Beneath The Surface

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–1.0M copies

≈ $706k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Russian Fishing 4 at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fishing (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Simulation.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ultimate Fishing Simulator® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 278k–451k 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	3DAmerica
Russian Fishing 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	90k reviews Mixed	FishingMultiplayer
SEGA Bass Fishing 2011	Est. copies ≈ 72k–117k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	FishingSimulation
Fishing Planet 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M 29x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	77k reviews Very Positive	FishingFree to Play
Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR 2019	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	594 reviews Very Positive	FishingSimulation
Professional Fishing 2018	Est. copies ≈ 129k–210k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	FishingFree to Play
Just Fishing 2017	Est. copies ≈ 32k–51k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	921 reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFishing
Fishing Adventure VR 2022	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$11.99	26 reviews Mostly Negative	SportsFishing