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How many copies did Cosmonious High sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$39k–$106k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before the cut
from 288 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Cosmonious High out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cosmonious High's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 676k–5.4M
best case 22.7M (No Man's Sky)
Games like Cosmonious High

The middle of these games

≈ 676k–5.4M copies

≈ $8.4M–$58.9M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.3M–28.1M copies, ≈ $285.6M–$767.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 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.
The era
The games you compared 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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