How much revenue did Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 413 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$270k before Steam's cut; from 413 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 799k–3.3M

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics

A typical game among these

≈ 799k–3.3M copies

≈ $11.2M–$38.4M after Steam's cut

from ~44k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Character Customization (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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