How much revenue did Aethernaut make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aethernaut sell?

Q: How many copies did Aethernaut sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 43 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Aethernaut out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aethernaut's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 388k–5.0M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like Aethernaut

The middle of these games

≈ 388k–5.0M copies

≈ $4.3M–$36.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 681 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.4M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before the cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
The Talos Principle 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 332k–539k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before the cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Story Rich
Supraland 2019	Est. copies ≈ 443k–719k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before the cut	$19.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerExploration
Gravitas 2019	Est. copies ≈ 206k–334k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayPuzzle
Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 212k–344k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 846k–1.4M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.2M before the cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Viewfinder 2023	Est. copies ≈ 323k–525k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.2M before the cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPuzzle
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M 32x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle