How much revenue did Sail and Sacrifice make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sail and Sacrifice sell?

Q: How many copies did Sail and Sacrifice sell?

634 to 1k copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 634–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 22 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Sail and Sacrifice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sail and Sacrifice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–5.0M

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like Sail and Sacrifice

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–5.0M copies

≈ $16.7M–$47.8M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Sandbox (4 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 38k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (4 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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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People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.1M–14.9M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.7M–$103.9M before the cut	$9.99	317k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
Hell Let Loose 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.0M–$137.1M after Steam's cut $92.7M–$210.9M before the cut	$49.99	150k reviews Very Positive	ShooterRealistic
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