How much revenue did STAR WARS™: Squadrons make?

$7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STAR WARS™: Squadrons sell?

Q: How many copies did STAR WARS™: Squadrons sell?

699k to 1.1M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 699k–1.1M; $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut; from 28k 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 STAR WARS™: Squadrons and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™: Squadrons's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 238k–774k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like STAR WARS™: Squadrons

A typical game among these

≈ 238k–774k copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (6 of 8) and Space Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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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