How much revenue did Curved Space make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Curved Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Curved Space sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 39 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 Curved Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Curved Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–102k

best case 152k (Star of Providence)

Games like Curved Space

A typical game among these

≈ 48k–102k copies

≈ $201k–$420k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Star of Providence at ≈ 116k–189k copies, ≈ $479k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Bullet Hell, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 1 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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