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How many copies did Raiders of the North Sea sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–12k
$31k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before the cut
from 265 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 Raiders of the North Sea out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Raiders of the North Sea's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–97k
best case 105k (Drop Duchy)
Games like Raiders of the North Sea

The middle of these games

≈ 67k–97k copies

≈ $485k–$607k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Drop Duchy at ≈ 80k–130k copies, ≈ $329k–$885k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 571 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 326 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Tabletop (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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