How much revenue did Apastron make?

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

How many copies did Apastron sell?

Q: How many copies did Apastron sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 25 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 Apastron and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apastron's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–888k

best case 56.0M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Apastron

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–888k copies

≈ $9k–$13.2M after Steam's cut

from ~906 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Looter Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 of the 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 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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