How much revenue did Kessler Effect make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kessler Effect sell?

Q: How many copies did Kessler Effect sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Kessler Effect out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kessler Effect's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–5.4M

best case 22.7M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Kessler Effect

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–5.4M copies

≈ $53.2M–$79.3M after Steam's cut

from ~35k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.3M–28.1M copies, ≈ $285.6M–$767.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 592 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 47 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (5 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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