How much revenue did Man in gravity make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Man in gravity sell?

Q: How many copies did Man in gravity 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; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (Mixed)

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 Man in gravity and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Man in gravity's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 101k–1.1M

best case 5.4M (Oxygen Not Included)

Games like Man in gravity

A typical game among these

≈ 101k–1.1M copies

≈ $467k–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 579 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (8 of 8) and Space (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.5M–$76.7M after Steam's cut $51.9M–$118.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Surviving Mars 2018	Est. copies ≈ 889k–1.4M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
Empyrion - Galactic Survival 2020	Est. copies ≈ 854k–1.4M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Mostly Positive	Simulation Co-op
Planetbase 2015	Est. copies ≈ 511k–830k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
Tin Can 2022	Est. copies ≈ 34k–55k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $186k–$499k after Steam's cut $337k–$767k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSpace
Take On Mars 2017	Est. copies ≈ 70k–114k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$794k before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Mixed	SimulationSpace
Astrometica 2024	Est. copies ≈ 80k–129k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $437k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $795k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Space SimSurvival
Osiris: New Dawn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 374k–608k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftHorror