How much revenue did International Space Banana make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did International Space Banana sell?

Q: How many copies did International Space Banana sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 121 reviews (Very 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 International Space Banana and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including International Space Banana's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 107k–144k

best case 176k (Star Trucker)

Games like International Space Banana

A typical game among these

≈ 107k–144k copies

≈ $608k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Star Trucker at ≈ 134k–217k copies, ≈ $920k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 391 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space Sim (7 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Transportation + Space Sim, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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