How much revenue did Cosmonious High make?

$39k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cosmonious High sell?

Q: How many copies did Cosmonious High sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 289 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$163k before Steam's cut; from 289 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 Cosmonious High and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cosmonious High's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 678k–5.4M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Cosmonious High

A typical game among these

≈ 678k–5.4M copies

≈ $8.4M–$59.0M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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