How much revenue did I Was a Teenage Exocolonist make?

$827k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Was a Teenage Exocolonist sell?

Q: How many copies did I Was a Teenage Exocolonist sell?

120k to 195k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 120k–195k; $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Was a Teenage Exocolonist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–1.3M

best case 6.5M (Balatro)

Games like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–1.3M copies

≈ $37k–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Balatro at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $20.5M–$55.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (5 of 8) and Card Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Loop Hero 2021	Est. copies ≈ 907k–1.5M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	37k reviews Very Positive	TacticalRogue-like
Volcano Princess 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	49k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Life SimMultiple Endings
Artist Life Simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before Steam's cut	$19.99	196 reviews Very Positive	Card GameStrategy
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