How much revenue did Starstruck: Hands of Time make?

$40k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starstruck: Hands of Time sell?

Q: How many copies did Starstruck: Hands of Time sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $40k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$164k before Steam's cut; from 290 reviews (Very 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 Starstruck: Hands of Time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starstruck: Hands of Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 667k–1.6M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Starstruck: Hands of Time

A typical game among these

≈ 667k–1.6M copies

≈ $5.3M–$15.7M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + FPS + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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 79 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	176k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
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