How much revenue did Lost Astronaut make?

$502–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Astronaut sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Astronaut sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $502–$1k after Steam's cut $913–$2k before Steam's cut; from 37 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 Lost Astronaut and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Astronaut's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–918k

best case 3.3M (EVE Online)

Games like Lost Astronaut

A typical game among these

≈ 264k–918k copies

≈ $1.6M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: EVE Online at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 467 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
Heavenly Bodies 2021	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $772k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PhysicsDifficult
EVE Online 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceFree to Play
Spaceflight Simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 243k–395k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxSpace Sim
Dreadnought 2018	Est. copies ≈ 202k–327k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	SpaceFree to Play
Space Hit 2017	Est. copies ≈ 413–671 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $112–$302 after Steam's cut $204–$465 before Steam's cut	$0.99	12 reviews Mixed	SpaceSpaceships
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Unlanded 2024	Est. copies ≈ 918–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$3.99	37 reviews Positive	DifficultUnforgiving