How much revenue did Out There: Oceans of Time make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Out There: Oceans of Time sell?

Q: How many copies did Out There: Oceans of Time sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 237 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before Steam's cut; from 237 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 Out There: Oceans of Time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Out There: Oceans of Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–7.3M

best case 9.1M (Satisfactory)

Games like Out There: Oceans of Time

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–7.3M copies

≈ $20.5M–$67.6M after Steam's cut

from ~100k 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: Satisfactory at ≈ 6.9M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.3M–$205.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 59k reviews in their first month; the range was 19k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (6 of 8) and Crafting (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Automation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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 70 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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