How much revenue did NavalArt make?

$383k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NavalArt sell?

Q: How many copies did NavalArt sell?

73k to 119k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–119k; $383k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $696k–$1.6M before the cut; from 2k 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 NavalArt out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NavalArt's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 378k–1.2M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like NavalArt

The middle of these games

≈ 378k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Naval Combat (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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