How much revenue did Stardeus make?

$319k–$859k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stardeus sell?

Q: How many copies did Stardeus sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $319k–$859k after Steam's cut $581k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Stardeus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stardeus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 675k–1.1M

best case 5.4M (Oxygen Not Included)

Games like Stardeus

A typical game among these

≈ 675k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Oxygen Not Included at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (6 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Resource Management + Singleplayer + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 3 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 38 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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