How much revenue did Astronaut: The Best make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astronaut: The Best sell?

Q: How many copies did Astronaut: The Best sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 34 reviews (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 Astronaut: The Best and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astronaut: The Best's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–683k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Astronaut: The Best

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–683k copies

≈ $624k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 856k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 642 reviews in their first month; the range was 175 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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