How much revenue did The Astronomy Game make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Astronomy Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Astronomy Game sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Astronomy Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Astronomy Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–33k

best case 315k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like The Astronomy Game

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–33k copies

≈ $4k–$191k after Steam's cut

from ~637 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 240k–390k copies, ≈ $197k–$530k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 391 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Text-Based (6 of 8) and Trivia (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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