How much revenue did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships sell?

Q: How many copies did Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 264 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before the cut; from 264 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 Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 279–5k

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

The middle of these games

≈ 279–5k copies

≈ $1k–$24k after Steam's cut

from ~22 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Gore (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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (3 of 8) and Pirates (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Physics + Blood; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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 14425x 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
Sea Dogs 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before the cut	$11.99	172 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGAction
Behind Border Zone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before the cut	$1.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	ActionAdventure
Sea Dogs: Caribbean Tales 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before the cut	$11.99	139 reviews Mixed	RPGAction
Sail and Sacrifice 2019	Est. copies ≈ 634–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$5.99	22 reviews Mostly Negative	ActionIndie
Pirate Survival Fantasy Shooter 2019	Est. copies ≈ 202–328 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $555–$1k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut	$9.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	ViolentAction
Spirit Animal Survival 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k 6.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before the cut	$9.99	132 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessSurvival
TIME TO HUNT 2022	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Battle RoyaleAction