How much revenue did Absolute Territory make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Absolute Territory sell?

Q: How many copies did Absolute Territory sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 36 reviews (Mixed)

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 Absolute Territory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Absolute Territory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 177k–990k

best case 6.9M (Elite Dangerous)

Games like Absolute Territory

A typical game among these

≈ 177k–990k copies

≈ $3.6M–$21.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Elite Dangerous at ≈ 5.3M–8.5M copies, ≈ $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Space (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Space, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, 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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