How much revenue did Nautical Life make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nautical Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Nautical Life sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 57 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut; from 57 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 Nautical Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nautical Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–18.4M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Nautical Life

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–18.4M copies

≈ $20.1M–$163.1M after Steam's cut

from ~128k 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 Fishing (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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 132k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fishing (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.0M–69.9M 8.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut $322.5M–$733.6M before the cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
WEBFISHING 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before the cut	$4.99	70k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FishingMultiplayer
Valheim 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13.4M–21.8M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.6M–$297.4M after Steam's cut $201.1M–$457.5M before the cut	$29.99	541k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
DAVE THE DIVER 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.0M–$91.0M before the cut	$19.99	161k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
Fishing Planet 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	77k reviews Very Positive	FishingFree to Play
Path of Exile 2013	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.6M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	250k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayDark Fantasy
FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $17.0M–$45.6M after Steam's cut $30.8M–$70.1M before the cut	$34.99	58k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.8M before the cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer