How much revenue did Orbital Invaders make?

$74–$200 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orbital Invaders sell?

Q: How many copies did Orbital Invaders sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $74–$200 after Steam's cut $135–$307 before Steam's cut; from 11 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 Orbital Invaders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orbital Invaders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 198k–465k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like Orbital Invaders

A typical game among these

≈ 198k–465k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.0M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (7 of 8) and Space Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Space, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Flight + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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