How much revenue did Asteroid Arena make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Asteroid Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Asteroid Arena sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$112 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Asteroid Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Asteroid Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 569–3k

best case 10k (Thunder Ray)

Games like Asteroid Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 569–3k copies

≈ $746–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Thunder Ray at ≈ 8k–13k copies, ≈ $32k–$87k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 102.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (6 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + 2D Fighter, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Critical Zone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 446–725 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $367–$986 after Steam's cut $667–$2k before Steam's cut	$2.99	18 reviews Positive	Local Multiplayer4 Player Local
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Thunder Ray 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k 12x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $32k–$87k after Steam's cut $59k–$134k before Steam's cut	$14.99	316 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionCasual
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