How much revenue did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System sell?

Q: How many copies did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 505 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$184k before Steam's cut; from 505 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 SPACERIFT: Arcanum System and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SPACERIFT: Arcanum System's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 705k–6.0M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like SPACERIFT: Arcanum System

A typical game among these

≈ 705k–6.0M copies

≈ $8.3M–$67.6M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Open World (7 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 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 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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No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M 6.7x 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 1.7x 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
Hardspace: Shipbreaker 2022	Est. copies ≈ 557k–905k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	22k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSci-fi
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Starfield 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $59.8M–$160.9M after Steam's cut $108.8M–$247.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	175k reviews Mixed	SpaceSingleplayer
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SpaceEngine 2019	Est. copies ≈ 480k–779k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
Empyrion - Galactic Survival 2020	Est. copies ≈ 854k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Mostly Positive	Simulation Co-op