How many copies did Beyond the Stars VR sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beyond the Stars VR make?

Beyond the Stars VR is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beyond the Stars VR?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1k–2k; from 51 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 Beyond the Stars VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond the Stars VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–194k

best case 1.7M (The Plan)

Games like Beyond the Stars VR

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–194k copies

≈ $13k–$281k after Steam's cut

from ~630 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Short (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: The Plan at ≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 68.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Short (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Short + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Sunlight 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut	$3.99	468 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureExperimental
Flower 2019	Est. copies ≈ 148k–240k 8.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $284k–$763k after Steam's cut $516k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$6.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	ImmersiveRelaxing
Recollection 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$1.99	134 reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericNature
LOST EMBER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 149k–243k 8.2x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericExploration
Far from Noise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut	$7.99	202 reviews Very Positive	ConversationNarrative
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening 2019	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut	$3.39	792 reviews Very Positive	Female ProtagonistAdventure
Loverowind 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $655–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$0.99	97 reviews Mixed	CasualAdventure