How much revenue did eSail Sailing Simulator make?

$253k–$681k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did eSail Sailing Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did eSail Sailing Simulator sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 842 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $253k–$681k after Steam's cut $461k–$1.0M before the cut; from 842 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 eSail Sailing Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including eSail Sailing Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–9.3M

best case 9.9M (Forza Horizon 4)

Games like eSail Sailing Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–9.3M copies

≈ $26.8M–$85.4M after Steam's cut

from ~94k 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: Forza Horizon 4 at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Automobile Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, 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 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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