How much revenue did Deep Space Battle Simulator make?

$28k–$75k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Space Battle Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Space Battle Simulator sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 410 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $28k–$75k after Steam's cut $51k–$116k before Steam's cut; from 410 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 Deep Space Battle Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Space Battle Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 262k–6.0M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Deep Space Battle Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 262k–6.0M copies

≈ $2.9M–$67.6M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 61 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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STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut $526.0M–$1196.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	422k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Elite Dangerous 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.5M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut $52.6M–$119.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSpace
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Starbase 2021	Est. copies ≈ 168k–273k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	7k reviews Mixed	Open WorldBuilding
Void Crew 2024	Est. copies ≈ 210k–341k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
PULSAR: Lost Colony 2021	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $782k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Space SimOpen World
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